Industrial Chemistry - by John A Tyrell (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This book discusses the connectivity between major chemicals, showing how a chemical is made along with why and some of the business considerations. The book helps smooth a student's transition to industry and assists current professionals who need to understand the larger picture of industrial chemistry principles and practices. The book:

Addresses a wide scope of content, emphasizing the business and polymer / pharmaceutical / agricultural aspects of industrial chemistry

Covers patenting, experimental design, and systematic optimization of experiments

Written by an author with extensive industrial experience but who is now a university professor, making him uniquely positioned to present this material

Has problems at the end of chapters and a separate solution manual available for adopting professors

Puts chemical industry topics in context and ties together many of the principles chemistry majors learn across more specific courses

From the Back Cover

This book offers a broad understanding of several different topics important to industrial chemistry. It discusses the connectivity between major chemicals, showing how a chemical is made along with why and some of the business considerations. (For example, the synthesis of chlorine is used to illustrate the concept of coproduction, captive use, and demand; the major outlet for chlorine is to make PVC which is tied to the housing market; the raw material cost of PVC is less dependent upon petroleum pricing than the other major polymers.) Not intended to give expert detail on all areas, the textbook gives an overview background putting chemical industry topics in context and tying together many of the principles chemistry majors learn across more specific courses. By exposing readers to these important industry topics, the book helps smooth transition from a student to an industrial professional and also assists those already in industry who may be missing a larger picture through narrow focus on a particular chemical area only.

Review Quotes

"Useful for students in chemistry or chemical engineering as well as entry-level industrial employees." (Choice, 1 February 2015)

About the Author

John Tyrell teaches a number of chemistry courses that include Industrial and Polymer Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Dr. Tyrell holds sixty-eight patents and has more than twenty years of industrial research experience, at Lederle Laboratories, General Electric Plastics, and OxyChem. He co-authored the book Fundamentals of Heterocyclic Chemistry: Importance in Nature and in the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals which was published by Wiley.