Introduction to Chemical Product Design

Whereas chemical engineering has traditionally focused on the design of chemical processes to produce commodity chemicals, there has been increasing attention in the discipline on the engineering of high-performance chemical products. Chemical product design principles are now being incorporated into university curricula to ensure new chemical engineers can help meet industry demands. Bridging the gap between teaching and practice, Introduction to Chemical Product Design provides a comprehensive overview of chemical product design, explains the role of chemical engineers in different stages of chemical product design, and covers stepwise approaches used to design different types of chemical products.

• Includes chemical product design steps with examples and case studies.

• Features mini projects to illustrate the connection between product design stages.

• Focuses on the most common types of problems that engineers encounter in their career.

• Offers solved examples and exercise problems on manufacturing steps.

• Considers the role of quality assurance and the tools to quantify environmental, health, and safety aspects.

Aimed at undergraduate- and graduate-level students in chemical engineering, this textbook provides readers with practical know-how to apply chemical product design principles to develop and manufacture high-value products. It will also be of interest to practising chemical engineers seeking to expand their knowledge of chemical product design.

The book features a Solutions Manual for adopting professors.

Nishanth G. Chemmangattuvalappil is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Calicut, Kerala, India, and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University, Alabama, USA. He has over 13 years of teaching experience in chemical process and product design related courses, along with five years of industrial experience. His primary areas of expertise include sustainable chemical product design, the application of machine learning tools in product development, carbon capture and storage using ionic liquids, and the integration of computer-aided molecular design techniques into biorefinery processes.

Jecksin Ooi serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University Malaysia. She received her MEng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering from University of Nottingham Malaysia and PhD in Engineering from the same institution. Her main area of expertise covers process and molecular design, particularly in computer-aided molecular design with the integration of environmental aspects. Her research interests also include multi-criteria decision making, application of machine learning tools on chemical process and molecular design and sustainable design of chemical products.

Mario Eden is the Dean of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and Joe T. & Billie Carole McMillan Endowed Chair at Auburn University, where he has been on the faculty since 2004 and has served as Dean since 2023. Dr. Eden previously served as Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering for almost 11 years (2012–2023), served for two years as the Acting Director of the Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering (2014–2016), and directed the first-ever NSF-IGERT on Integrated Biorefining (2011–2018) at Auburn University. His main areas of expertise include process design, integration, and optimization, as well as molecular synthesis and product design. His group focuses on the development of systematic methodologies for process and product synthesis, design, integration, and optimization. He has mentored 8 postdoctoral fellows and graduated 16 Ph.D. students along with 7 M.S. Students.