Additive Manufacturing for Chemical Sciences and Engineering

This book is tailored designed for both researchers as well as academics  teaching or introducing Advanced Manufacturing course to their  classrooms. It presents the current state of research in this field of  research and major challenges identified so far, for the integration of  additive manufacturing into chemical processes. Unique capability of  transforming materials into functional devices with specific geometry  using the emerging additive manufacturing technologies has stimulated  significant interest in biology, engineering and materials science, to  provide custom-made designs for tailored applications. However, the  applications of this emerging technology in the field of chemical  sciences and engineering have started very recently. Therefore, the  major focus of this book is to introduce the basic principles of  additive manufacturing practices as well as advent into conventional  chemical processes and various unit operations. The potential advantage  of introducing these additive manufacturing technologies has the  potential to scale down large scale chemical processes into small scale,  which offers several advantages including lower foot print, waste  reduction and efficient heat integration as well as distributed chemical  manufacturing.