"Catastrophic events such as the Bhopal, India tragedy and rising incidences of cancer in areas neighboring industrial facilities have heightened concern over the use of toxic chemicals in manufacturing and industry. Based on the author's research conducted through their develop…
by Plotkin, Jeffrey S., Wittcoff, Harold A., Reuben, Bryan G.
Updated and expanded, the Second Edition discusses how the majority of industrial organic chemicals and polymers are derived from seven major building blocks produced from petroleum and natural gas, these include ethylene, propylene, C4 olefins (butenes and butadiene), benzene t…
"This book describes and analyzes how seven major high-tech industries evolved in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. The industries covered are machine tools, organic chemical products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, computers, semiconductors, and software. In each…
"Understand common scheduling as well as other advanced operational problems with this valuable reference from a recognized leader in the field. Beginning with basic principles and an overview of linear and mixed-integer programming, this unified treatment introduces the fundame…
Charts Imperial Chemical Industries' response to the changing social, political and economic environment of the past twenty years. It examines the evolution of organization structure and culture, technology, and union-management relations within this corporate giant.
The book provides an account of the totality of fragrance chemistry in one volume. It describes the chemistry of odorous materials, how and why they are produced in nature, how they are produced and used commercially, how they are analyzed and characterized, the chemistry of how…
