Materials for a Healthy, Ecological and Sustainable Built Environment: Principles for Evaluation by Emina Kristina Petro
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The Development of Catalysis: A History of Key Processes and Personas in Catalytic Science and Technology Adriano Zecchina and Salvatore Califano Wiley, 2017 352 pages, $125.00 (e-book $100.99) ISBN 978-1-119-18126-2
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atalysis covers a vast field of academic to industrial research and has undoubtedly changed the world, as it has allowed the introduction of modern fuels, chemicals, and plastics. This book describes the history of catalysis and its path to modern-day catalysis research. The authors are well-qualified to write this history, as they have dedicated their careers to catalysis. The chapters are focused on the following: the first large-scale industrial processes, historical development of theories, catalytic processes associated with the petroleum industry, surface methods, heterogeneous catalysis, materials science, photocatalysis, and enzymatic catalysis. With these topics, the book covers most of the important industrial processes used today, or the precursors to the present processes, and their historical impact on industry. The chapters logically follow the
increasing complexity of catalysis from early homogeneous catalysis processes to modern heterogeneous-based ones, which are highly dependent on materials and surfaces. The final chapters are dedicated to more emergent areas of catalysis. Even though I have worked in catalysis, the amount of material covered by the authors quickly became overwhelming. The authors seem intent on discussing a wide breadth of catalysis history. Because of this attempt, most fields are scantily covered. For instance, a page and a half is dedicated to hydrodesulfurization, a key catalytic process required to remove sulfur from oil. The revolutionary olefin polymerization process, which earned Ziegler and Natta a Nobel Prize, is covered in five pages. I found it difficult from the short synopsis of each process to get any in-depth scientific understanding—more of a brush stroke.
Materials for a Healthy, Ecological and Sustainable Built Environment: Principles for Evaluation Emina Kristina Petrovic, Brenda Vale, and Maibritt Pedersen Zari Woodhead Publishing, 2017 416 pages, $161.25 (e-book $161.25) ISBN 9780081007075
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his book contains technical information relevant to contemporary architecture and the environmental impact from the construction materials for various ecosystems under different conditions. It is focused on proposing principles for the evaluation of building materials in relation to their suitability for sustainable construction, for example, materials that are grown (grasses, hemp, bamboo, vines, and
goods), materials that are extracted (earth, stone, brick, and concrete), materials that are made (glass, metals, steel, cooper, aluminum, zinc, and lead), and plastics or composites. The book is comprised of four parts: Part I—Selecting Building Materials for Reduced Impacts on Ecosystem Services, Part II—Choosing Sustainable Materials, Part III—Indoor Toxicity from Building Materials, and Part IV—Case Studies.
The authors focus heavily on researche
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