Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alfons Mersmann is a Professor of Process Engineering and has taught at the Technical University Munich. His research interests are multiphase flow and process engineering at solid interfaces.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kind is a Professor of Thermal Process Engineering and teaches at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His research interests include heat and mass transfer and product engineering by crystallization and drying.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johann Stichlmair is a Professor of Fluid Process Engineering who until recently taught at the Technical University Munich. His research interests are process synthesis and apparatus design in thermal process engineering.

Basic methods and their application for industrial process engineering

Selected important aspects of reaction engineering, formation of nano-scale particles by precipitation, and of chromatography are covered

Contributions of thermal separation processes to the global challenge of CO2-emissions are treated

Preface.- Symbols.- Introduction.- Thermodynamic Phase-Equilibrium.- Fundamentals of Single-phase and Multiphase Flow.- Balances, Kinetics of Heat and Mass Transfer.- Distillation, Rectification and Absorption.- Extraction.- Evaporation and Condensation.- Crystallization.- Adsorption, Chromatography, Ion Exchange.- Drying.- Conceptual Process Design.- References.- Index.