Design and Processing of Particulate Products

This unique text offers comprehensive coverage of fundamental particle science, processing and technology, and includes quantitative tools, case studies and end-of-chapter problems.

Jim Litster (Author)

9781107007376, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 October 2016

340 pages, 157 b/w illus. 38 tables
25.7 x 18 x 2 cm, 0.81 kg

'This volume is a short and readable text on the subject of particulates and particulate delivery. Within the field of engineering, it takes an interdisciplinary approach to particulate characteristics, formation, and applications, with a focus on materials custom-designed for specific tasks. Furthermore, it addresses both process and product design approaches, encouraging students to think about designing particles for specific functions, while considering issues of efficiency in long-term and large-scale creation of the desired materials. Each chapter begins with a case study and then moves through short sections of learning goals, specific lessons, a summary, a bibliography, and problem sets illustrated sparingly with graphs, tables, and occasional images. Given the specialized nature of the text, its usefulness in a collection will be determined by the needs of the users. This volume will serve as an excellent reference book, as well as a strong textbook for a course on the subject.' CHOICE

With this unique and comprehensive text, readers will gain the quantitative tools needed to engineer the particulate processes and products that are ubiquitous in modern life. Covering a series of particle and particulate delivery form design processes, with emphasis on design and operation to control particle attributes, and supported by many worked examples, it is essential reading for students and practitioners. Topics covered include a range of particle design processes such as crystallization and precipitation, granulation, grinding, aerosol processes and spray drying, as well as forms of delivery such as granules, tablets, dry powders, and aerosols. Readers will learn from real-world examples how the primary particle properties and the structure and properties of the delivery form can lead to high performance products, ranging from pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and foods, to specialty chemicals, paints, agricultural chemicals and minerals.

1. Introduction
2. Particle characterization and particle property distributions
3. The population balance
4. Crystallization and precipitation
5. Particle size reduction
6. Aerosol processes
7. Spray drying and spray cooling
8. Wet granulation
9. Strength, breakage and attrition of particulate delivery forms
10. Dispersion, disintegration and dissolution.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of solids [TGMD], Materials science [TGM], Mechanical engineering & materials [TG], Chemical engineering [TDCB], Industrial chemistry [TDC], Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies [TD], Technology, engineering, agriculture [T]