Integration and Optimization of Unit Operations: Review of Unit Operations from R&D to Production: Impacts of Upstream and Downstream Process Decisions

The chemical industry changes and becomes more and more integrated worldwide. This creates a need for information exchange that includes not only the principles of operation but also the transfer of practical knowledge.

Integration and Optimization of Unit Operations provides up-to-date and practical information on chemical unit operations from the R&D stage to scale-up and demonstration to commercialization and optimization. A global collection of industry experts systematically discuss all innovation stages, complex processes with different unit operations, including solids processing and recycle flows, and the importance of integrated process validation. The book addresses the needs of engineers who want to increase their skill levels in various disciplines so that they are able to develop, commercialize and optimize processes. After reading this book, you will be able to acquire new skills and knowledge to collaborate across disciplines and develop creative solutions.

• Shows the impacts of upstream process decisions on downstream operations
• Provides troubleshooting strategies at each process stage
• Asks challenging questions to develop creative solutions to process problems

Barry A. Perlmutter is President of Perlmutter & Idea Development LLC, P&ID. He has 40 years of technical engineering and business marketing experience in solid-liquid separation, filtration, centrifugation, and process drying. His skills focus on process solutions, innovation strategy and business development and market expansion. Barry has published and presented worldwide and is responsible for introducing many European technologies into the marketplace. He is an author of Elsevier’s “Solid-Liquid Filtration: Practical Guides in Chemical Engineering” and a new E-book “Framework for Selecting Automated Filtration Technologies for Clarification Applications .”

Barry began his career with the US Environmental Protection Agency and then entered the world of solid-liquid separation at Pall Corporation. For eleven years, he continued at Rosenmund Inc. as VP of Engineering and Sales including Comber and Guedu Dryers and Ferrum Centrifuges. From the process industries, Barry joined Process Efficiency Products, now part of Amiad USA, as a Director of Marketing and Sales for the manufacturing of filtration, separation and adsorption technologies for cooling tower and HVAC water, process fluids, and water and wastewater treatment. He then became President & Managing Director of BHS-Filtration Inc. (BHS-Sonthofen Inc.) where he grew the filtration, drying, mixing and recycling business of BHS for more than 20 years including the integration of AVA GmbH dryers. His current company, P&ID, allows Barry to provide consulting services for process and project development with operating companies and business development, marketing & sales strategies for process technology suppliers.

He received a BS degree in Chemistry from Albany State (NY) University, MS degree from the School of Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis and an MBA from the University of Illinois, Chicago.