unlike extensive major reference works or handbooks, advances in chemical engineering provides readers with a ready-reference to latest techniques in selected areas of chemical engineering where research is and will be focused in the future. these areas are bioseparations, particle science and design, nanotechnology, and reaction engineering. the overall aim of the book is to provide academic and rs contributors take a unified approach to their specific technique, and each chapter concludes with a section on the possible developments for the techniques discussed.