Ever since man walked on the face of this earth, he has consumed food to survive, to maintain his body and mind, and later for pleasure too. In the early days, he had to gather his food wherever he found it. Gradually man started to understand how to grow and cultivate his own food, and he gained more and more control over his environment. All this time, man observed and the mechanisms behind it, longing to understand what happened, what happens...
This volume, Fluidization, Solids Handling, and Processing, is the first of a series of volumes on ?Particle Technology? to be published by Noyes Publications with L. S. Fan of Ohio State University as the consulting editor. Particles are important products of chemical process industries spanning the basic and specialty chemicals, agricultural products, pharmaceuticals, paints, dyestuffs and pigments, cement, ceramics, and electronic materials. ...
