Author: George Wypych
Publisher: ChemTec Publishing
Keywords: solvents, handbook
Number of Pages: 1680
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1895198240
ISBN-13: 9781895198249

This book was written by a group of experts on various subjects of solvents’ use, the fundamental principles governing their application, effect on health and environment, residual solvents in products, their concentration in industrial environments, current regulations, safer substitutes, non-emitting technologies of use, contamination cleanup, personal protection, and the most modern trends in future technology. The authors, who are the members of prestigious universities and industries from around the world, altogether have previously written 47 books and hundreds of papers on the subject

Author: Armando Gomez-Puyou
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: solvents, organic, biomolecules
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1992-01-27
List price: $404.95
ISBN-10: 0849348234
ISBN-13: 9780849348235

Biomolecules and Organic Solvents discusses the behavior of enzymes and multi-enzyme complexes in organic solvents, in addition to the problem of water-protein interactions and the characteristics of water at interphases. It attempts to bridge the gap between the all water and the organic solvents systems from the point of view of enzyme structure and function. The mechanism of action of enzymes dispersed in anhydrous organic solvents and the biotechnological perspectives of the field are evaluated, and new information regarding the function and characteristics of complex multi-enzymatic syste

Author: Ernest W. Flick
Publisher: William Andrew
Keywords: fifth, handbook, solvents, industrial
Number of Pages: 994
Published: 1999-01-14
List price: $265.00
ISBN-10: 0815514131
ISBN-13: 9780815514138

Completely revised, and vastly expanded, this Fifth Edition is a well-established and successful reference volume designed principally for the chemical and other process industries, but will be found useful by anyone needing the latest pertinent data on industrial solvents. This Fifth Edition is uniquely helpful when it becomes necessary to select a new solvent on a competitive or comparative basis; when the customary solvent, employed hitherto, might no longer be available, or can no longer be used because of environmental reasons; or when prices have risen to such an extent that an existing

Author: Gerd H. Brunner
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: media, reaction, solvents, fluids, supercritical
Number of Pages: 650
Published: 2004-06-25
List price: $213.00
ISBN-10: 0444515747
ISBN-13: 9780444515742

Supercritical fluids behave either like a gas or a liquid, depending on the values of thermodynamic properties. This tuning of properties, and other advantageous properties of supercritical fluids led to innovative technologies. More than 100 plants of production size are now in operation worldwide in the areas of process and production technology, environmental applications, and particle engineering. New processes are under research and development in various fields. This book provides an overview of the research activities in the field of Supercritical Fluids in Germany. It is based on the r

Author: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: industries, vol, chemical, handbook, solvents, industrial
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2003-04-15
List price: $219.95
ISBN-10: 0824740335
ISBN-13: 9780824740337

Keeping pace with current trends in solvent production, this volume builds upon its previous edition with broader coverage of safe handling practices, health effects, physical properties, and chemical synthesis routes to some of the most important organic solvents used in the chemical and allied process industries. This handy reference features a glossary of solvent terminology and an easy-to-reference index of synonyms for chemicals and solvents. The Second Edition features new and updated chapters on the major classes of organic solvents, descriptions for general use, and the chemical formul

Authors:Paul Knochel, J. Auge, B. Betzemeier, B. Cornils, D.p.
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: current, chemistry, topics, synthesis, solvents, organic, modern
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 1999-11-12
List price: $224.00
ISBN-10: 3540662138
ISBN-13: 9783540662136

This volume covers the use of modern solvent systems for the performance of more efficient, selective and economical organic transformations. During the last twenty years water has emerged as a new useful reaction media for the performance of organic or metal catalyzed reactions. More recently, other reaction media like perfluorinated solvents or supercritical CO2 have proven their utility for many organic synthesis as well as in combinatorial chemistry. Also the most representative industrial applications of some of these modern solvent systems are described and finally the synthetic possibil

Authors:Christopher S. Brazel, Robin D. Rogers,
Publisher: An American Chemical Society Publication
Keywords: applications, acs, symposium, series, novel, additives, liquids, polymer, systems, solvents, ionic
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-08-25
List price: $202.00
ISBN-10: 0841239363
ISBN-13: 9780841239364

This book includes manuscripts from well-recognized international research groups that have taken different approaches to using ionic liquids in a variety of polymer applications. The chapters on polymer synthesis cover traditional free radical polymerizations, which have been shown to progress rapidly and yield high molecular weight polymers, and reverse atom transfer polymerizations. The ability to tune molecular weights and synthesize block copolymers has been attributed to long free radical lifetimes in ionic liquids. Other chapters cover a variety of uses for ionic liquids in polymer proc