Preface - Introduction - Hygiene and safety issues - Dimensional analysis and size scaling - Principles of physical processes/separations - Fluid flow - Heat transfer - Elements of chemical reactors - Elements of biotechnology - Mass and energy balances - Water treatment in industry - Treatment of liquid (industrial) wastes - Liquid transfer devices (pumps) - Gas absorption - Scrubbing - Extraction - Heat exchangers - Boiling and condensation - Psychrometry - Drying - Evaporation - Agitation and mixing - Phase diagrams - Freeze-drying or lyophilization - Crystallization - Characterization and properties of (micro)particulate solids - Size reduction of solids - Mechanical separations - Principles of settling or sedimentation - Centrifugal settling processes - Principles of filtration - Introduction to chemical reactors - Reaction stoichiometry - Reaction kinetics - Ideal chemical reactors - Multiple chemical reactors - Thermal characteristics of chemical reactors - The effect of heat on the design of chemical processes - Multiphase chemical reactors - Catalytic chemical reactors - Catalytic reactions - Biochemical processes - Catalytic cracking of heavy petroleum fractions for fuel production - Index