Applied Radiation Chemistry - Radiation Processing - Hardcover

Woods, Robert J.; Pikaev, Alexei K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471544523 ISBN 13: 9780471544524

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 1993

Synopsis

Deals with radiation processing as a whole using a chemical perspective. Offers basic information on the procedures taking place and covers radiation dosimetry plus a wide range of actual and potential applications. Provides excellent coverage of radiation processing literature with bibliographies pertaining to key areas of radiation chemistry.

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About the Author

Robert J. Woods and Alexei K. Pikaev are the authors of Applied Radiation Chemistry: Radiation Processing, published by Wiley.

From the Back Cover

Since its infancy in the early 1960s, the use of radiation chemistry in commercial and industrial processes has been greeted with equal parts enthusiasm and controversy. Thirty years later, while much has changed in the technology of radiation chemistry, both the enthusiasm and the controversy have remained. Applied Radiation Chemistry takes a long hard look at the entire field of radiation processing: its history, the current state of technology, level of use, controversial applications, and promising developments. The only book of its kind, Applied Radiation Chemistry places as much emphasis on the chemical changes and principles that produce the observable results as it places on the techniques in question. This enables the reader to understand applications in chemical terms, rather than as a series of recipes. Full chapters are devoted to the processing of polymers and the sterilization of medical disposables, two applications currently in use worldwide. There is also an extensive discussion of the controversial subject of radiation treatment of food, including detailed tables of foods approved for irradiation, and a section on identification of irradiated foods. Applied Radiation Chemistry is the ultimate handbook for chemists, food scientists, polymer scientists, environmental scientists, chemical engineers, and others engaged in research on radiation-processing applications. This fully referenced text is also an ideal textbook for graduate-level courses in radiation applications because it gives basic information on the processes, covers radiation dosimetry, and introduces students to a wide range of actual and potential applications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471544523
• ISBN 13: 9780471544524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 552