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Book Reviews The Crystallization Technology Handbook, 2nd ed. Edited by A. Marsmann. Marcel Dekker: New York, Basel, Switzerland. 2001. ISBN 0-8247-0528-9.
The Crystallization Technology Handbook, 2nd edition, covers a wide range of aspects of industrial crystallization. The text, with over 800 pages consisting of 15 chapters and a valuable appendix as well as a substance and a subject index, is amply illustrated and presents an important summary of existing knowledge in the field of industrial crystallization. The chapters touch upon all aspectsskinetics, design, controlsin the fields of reaction, solution, and melt crystallization, respectively. The book contributes, therefore, by providing information and tools for dealing with problems of selection and design of crystallizers and improvements of crystal size, size distribution, and morphology. The book successfully presents a homogeneous, with respect to symbols, and practical collection of independent contributions with minimal overlap.
A strong improvement over the first edition is obvious in the details and in the range of the covered content. However, unfortunately the authors of some chapters still concentrate mainly on their own achievements and do not recognize in full the research of other groups (books, papers) in those fields. In spite of this slight drawback, the book is a very readable, extremely helpful volume with valuable information (basic state of the art knowledge, references, and data), which should undoubtedly not be missed by anyone dealing with industrial crystallization problemssin industry as well as in academia. Joachim Ulrich Martin-Luther-Universita¨ t Halle-Wittenberg CG0100179 10.1021/cg0100179
