Modeling, chemical interdisciplinary approach

The applicability of using these interdisciplinary approaches, which include incorporation of various physical and chemical properties of the pollutants, QSARs/QSPRs and multicomponent joint action modeling are discussed and evaluated using a group of toxic and carcinogenic pollutants, i. e., polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). 

This section represents different case studies to explain how physical and chemical properties, QSAR and QSPR approaches, and multicomponent toxic effect models can be used to predict the mobility and bioavailability of organic pollutants at aqueous-solid phase interfaces. Such interdisciplinary approaches are applied here to two groups of toxic and carcinogenic compounds. 

There is no interdisciplinary joint project on design process modeling and support of a comparable breadth and depth known to the editors. Therefore, the approach and the results of the CRC received broad international recognition in both the chemical engineering and informatics communities. 

Ferrites are complex because they combine two complex areas ceramic microstructures and magnetic phenomena. Ceramic microstructures, formed as a result of physico-chemical processes such as solid-state sintering, are affected by a large number of interacting variables the essentially quantum-mechanical nature of their magnetic properties makes them difficult to comprehend, since they are entirely different to macroscopic, every-day experience. The approach to ferrites their synthesis/fabrication the relationship between crystal structure, texture and physical properties the modelling of magnetic interactions, is of necessity interdisciplinary. 

However, because universities are responsible also for the preparation of the students for research careers, this book will also include the elements discussed by Aris. In this case, the definition by Aris [5] must come strongly into play. Because much of the chemical engineering research work today is interdisciplinary in nature, especially in the relatively new fields such as biotechnology and microelectronics, it should be clear that mathematical modeling and system theory are the most suitable and efficient means of communication between the different disciplines involved. Therefore, chemical engineering education based on system theory and mathematical modeling as portrayed in this book seems to be the best approach to prepare the chemical engineers for this interdisciplinary research. The fact that... 

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