Process Engineering in Brewing Science – Part 3: Thermal Process Engineering
In this series of articles about process engineering in brewing, the fundamentals inherent to the discipline are examined using relevant examples for purposes of elucidation. The general principles encountered in process engineering were reviewed in part 1 (BRAUWELT International No. 2, 2017, pp. 127-131), while part 2 explored the discipline of mechanical process engineering (BRAUWELT International No. 3, 2017, pp. 185-188). Part 3 is devoted to thermal process engineering. Here, the focus is on mixing and separating molecules and systems of molecules. An equation of state is an important tool for describing such systems.