Product Engineering: Molecular Structure and Properties

by James Wei

Overview

The current chemical engineering curriculum concentrates on process: the efficient manufacturing in quantity of traditional chemical products such as ammonia and benzene. However, many chemical companies now invent and manufacture specialty products with particular properties such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and electronic coatings, and their employees need to know how to design the products as well as manufacture them. James Wei, a famous chemical engineer, is writing this book to provide theories and case studies in product engineering the design of new, useful products with desired properties. The first section relates historical case studies of successful product invention and development by individuals and companies. The second part of the book describes the toolbox of molecular structure-property relations. A desired product needs to have certain properties (for example, phase transition or thermal properties) and the chemist must find or design a molecular structure with the required properties This section will instruct chemists in the analysis of structure and property information. The third section is concerned with the next stage: product research and design. It will discuss improving the desired product by additives and blending, among other strategies. It will also cover future challenges in product engineering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195159172
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/04/2007
Series:	Topics in Chemical Engineering
Edition description:	BK&CD-ROM
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	9.36(w) x 6.52(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Preface1. Product Exploration and Discovery2. Product Development to BusinessPart II Molecular Structure-Property Relations 3. Search Challenges and Methods4. Theory and Quantitative Predictions5. Predictions by Correlations6. Estimations by associations and trends7. Random Searches8. Research FrontiersPart III. Product Engineering9. Marketing10. Safety, Health and Environment11. Product Design12. Product Innovation opportunities