This book covers various inorganic and organic chemical industries, including fertilizers, petroleum and petrochemicals, pulp and paper, cement, glass and refractory materials, paints and pharmaceutical and metallurgical industries.
Chemical industry is one of the important sectors of economy which plays a vital role in the industrialization and urbanization, meeting basic needs of mankind through supplying fertilizers, gases, caustics and chlorine, soaps and detergents, synthetic fiber, synthetic rubber, polymers, sugars and alcohols, paper dyes and intermediates, explosives, agrochemicals, dyes and intermediates, paints, etc. To remain competitive, the chemical industry has to look at various cost-cutting and conservation measures including those for raw materials, energy and other utilities. The various topics concerning specific energy consumption, corrosion, environment and safety have also been widely covered in the book.This makes an ideal textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of chemical engineering as well postgraduate courses in chemistry.
Indra Deo Mall PhD, FIE (I), LM IIChE, LM IPPTA is former Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, former Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. Earlier he had worked in Orient Paper Mills, Brajrajnagar, Orissa. He has published/presented more than 215 research papers in international and national journals | at conferences. He has published two books Petrochemical Process Technology and Petroleum Refining Technology (CBSPD). He has also contributed chapters in many books. He is fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and life member of IIChE, Indian Pulp and Paper Technical Association and Indian Association of Air Pollution Control. He has received three prestigious awards The Institution of Engineers Nawab Zain Jung Bahadur Memorial Medal 1996-1997 in the area of environment, Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management, USA, Russell Ackoff Award 2003, and Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologies best paper award 2013. He had been member of boards of studies of a number of universities and institutes and presently is also actively engaged in academic activities of various institutes and universities as expert.
