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Jean-Pierre Dal Pont is the president of the Société des Experts Chimistes de France (SECF). Specializing in process industries, he has been an industrial director in the United States and Asia-Pacific for many years.Marie Debacq is responsible for the AgroParisTech technology platform in France. She was a research lecturer at Cnam (Paris), where her work involved experimental study and modeling of polyphasic reactors.

• Foreword 1 ixLaurent BASEILHACForeword 2 xiVincent LAFLÈCHEForeword 3 xvJune C. WISPELWEYIntroduction xviiJean-Pierre DAL PONT and Marie DEBACQChapter 1. Industries, Businesses and People 1Jean-Pierre DAL PONT1.1. Manufacturing, process, and service industries 21.1.1. Manufacturing industries 21.1.2. Process industries 21.1.3. Service industries 31.2. Founding fathers of the industrial enterprise 31.3. Anatomy of an industrial enterprise 41.4. Industrial strategy: the business plan 61.4.1. Industrial strategy of the company 71.4.2. Business plan 101.4.3. Reengineering the corporation 111.5. Systemic vision of the enterprise: the enterprise and flows 111.6. The two operating modes of the enterprise: operational and entrepreneurial 131.7. Governance 141.8. Operations abroad 151.9. References 15Chapter 2. Earth, Our Habitat: Products by the Millions, the Need for Awareness 17Jean-Pierre DAL PONT and Michel ROYER2.1. Population explosion 182.2. Systemic analysis and the concept of a system 202.3. Earth, a complex system 222.3.1. Atmospheric chemistry, ozone, and climate change 222.3.2. Water-energy-food-climate nexus 222.4. Awareness, sustainable development 262.4.1. Rachel Carson and sustainability 262.4.2. Sustainable development 272.5. Products by the millions 282.6. Resource Earth, garbage Earth: towards a circular economy 312.6.1. Circular economy 322.6.2. Lifecycle assessment (LCA) and ecodesign 332.7. Materials science 342.8. Product formulation and engineering 352.9. Product toxicology and ecotoxicology 362.10. Product packaging and ergonomics 372.10.1. Packaging and packing/wrapping 372.10.2. Ergonomics 372.11. New consumer requirements 382.12. Boxes 392.13. References 83Chapter 3. Designing Chemical Products 85Willi MEIER3.1. Introduction 853.1.1. Why is chemical product design important? 853.1.2. Current state of the art 873.2. Basic technologies 883.2.1. Dimensions 883.2.2. Additives 893.2.3. Microencapsulation 943.3. Products 973.3.1. Aspirin® 973.3.2. Coffee and related beverages 993.4. Product design 4.0 1033.5. References 105Chapter 4. Chemical Engineering: Introduction and Fundamentals 107Marie DEBACQ, Alain GAUNAND and Céline HOURIEZ4.1. Introduction: definitions, history, and challenges 1074.1.1. Prehistory of chemical engineering 1084.1.2. A crosscutting science serving society 1094.1.3. Chemistry, formulation, industrial chemistry, chemical engineering, and product engineering 1104.2. Fundamentals of chemical engineering 1144.2.1. Thermodynamic fundamentals of chemical engineering 1144.2.2. Kinetic fundamentals of process design 1264.2.3. System-balances-performance approach for process design 1454.2.4. Conclusion: ideal hydrodynamics and balances 1524.3. Box 1544.4. References 155Chapter 5. Chemical Engineering: Unit Operations 157Marie DEBACQ5.1. Distillation 1595.1.1. Vapor–liquid equilibria 1625.1.2. Balances for a distillation column 1645.1.3. McCabe–Thiele method 1655.1.4. Technologies for continuous distillation 1675.1.5. Conclusion on distillation 1685.2. Fluid–solid mechanical separations 1695.2.1. Fluid–solid interaction laws 1695.2.2. Settling 1735.2.3. Centrifugal and inertial separation 1745.2.4. Filtration 1775.2.5. Conclusion on fluid–solid mechanical separations 1825.3. Stirring 1835.3.1. Qualitative aspects of stirring 1845.3.2. Quantitative aspects of stirring 1865.3.3. Choice of impellers 1885.3.4. Stirred tank scale-up 1895.3.5. Conclusion on stirring 1905.4. Heat exchangers 1905.4.1. Heat exchanger technologies 1905.4.2. Designing heat exchangers 1925.4.3. Conclusion on heat exchangers 1955.5. Reactors 1955.5.1. Conversion rate and generalized extent of reaction 1965.5.2. Ideal homogeneous reactors 1985.5.3. Non-ideal reactors 2035.5.4. Multi-phase reactors 2055.6. Conclusion 2085.7. Boxes 2095.8. Glossary 2235.9. References 224List of Authors 227Index 229Summary of Volume 2 231