TY - BOOK AU - Bröckel,Ulrich AU - Meier,Willi AU - Wagner,Gerhard TI - Product design and engineering: best practices SN - 9783527315291 (hbk.) (set) U1 - 660.0685 PY - 2007/// CY - Weinheim PB - Wiley-VCH KW - New products KW - Chemical engineering KW - Industrial design N1 - This title has 2 volumes. v. 1. Basics and technologies -- v. 2. Rawmaterials, additives and applications; Includes bibliographical references and index; Volume 1. 1. Introduction. 2. Interaction forces between particles. 3. Fundamentals of crystallization. 4. Emulsification techniques for the formulation of emulsions and suspensions. 5. Characterization of disperse systems. 6. Introduction to technologies used for structuring chemical products. 7. Product design by spray drying. 8. Wet granulation in agitated processes. 9. Compaction. 10. Extrusion technology for product design. 11. Manufacturing of pharmaceutical dosage forms using melt-extrusion technology. 12. Modeling chemical systems to predict product properties. 13. Knowledge management and decision support in product development. -- Volume 2. 1. Introduction. 2. Product design fundamentals. 3. New raw materials: biodiesel as an example of the application of product-design principles. 4. Fats, oils and waxes. 5. Starch and starch-based products. 6. Gelatine - the excipient of choice for food, pharmaceutical and technical applications. 7. Sugars. 8. Synthetic precititated silicas as carrier materials. 9. Design of heterogeneous catalysts. 10. Secondary properties of peroral products - aspects of stability and bioavilibility. 11. Conceptual design of carotenoid product forms. - Aspirins - a successful example of formulation technology. 13. Product design for coffee-based beverages. 14. Structure design in the food industry. Product design of laundry-powder components. 16. Optimized performance of agrochemical products by means of formulation - formulation development of today. 17. Development of polymeric UV-absorber. 18. Formulation of structured chemical products. - Index ER -