Modern Drying Technology, Product Quality and Formulation

This five-volume series provides a comprehensive overview of all important aspects of modern drying technology, concentrating on the transfer of cutting-edge research results to industrial use.
Volume 3 deals with product quality and formulation. Biochemical, physical, and mechanical transformations which can occur during drying are described as well as methods for monitoring product quality such as process analytical technology. The preservation of desired product properties is disucssed in detail for foods and biomaterials, freeze-dried active pharmaceutical ingredients, and highly porous, fragile materials such as aerogels. Emphasis is put on particle formation and morphology as well as on particle formulation by spray drying and spray fluidized bed processes, including granulation, agglomeration, coating, and encapsulation. Modeling tools such as Monte Carlo simulations, discrete particle modeling and neural networks are presented all in conjunction with real examples from industry and academia.

Released Volumes of Modern Drying Technology

*Volume 1: Computational Tolls at Different Scales ISBN 978-3-527-31556-7

*Volume 2: Experimental Techniques ISBN 978-3-527-31557-4

Forthcoming Volumes of Modern Drying Technology

*Volume 4: Energy Saving ISBN 978-3-527-31559-8
*Volume 5: Process Intensification ISBN 978-3-527-31560-4
*Set (Volume 1-5)
ISBN 978-3-527-31554-3

Professor Dr. Ing. Evangelos Tsotsas holds the Chair of Thermal Process Engineering at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany) since 1994. Prior to this, he was a Senior Process Specialist at the Dow Chemical Company. He has authored about 250 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and is the recipient of the Hosokawa Award for Innovation and the ProcessNet Award for Excellence in Drying Research. He serves in various functions in organizations such as the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the European and German Working Party on Drying.

Professor Arun S. Mujumdar is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore and Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at the McGill University, Canada. Prior to this, he was President and Principal Consultant of Exergex Corp., Canada. He has authored 2 books and over 60 book chapters, edited or co-edited over 50 books and journals, and is elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Chemical Institute of Canada, and the Institute of Chemical Engineering, India. He was recently awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technical University of Lodz, Poland.