BibliographyContrary to the format of the author's earlier book [B.42], in which numerous individual bibliographical references were listed, many ofwhich referred to the fundamentals and the scientific treatment of the unit operation "Size Enlargement by Agglomeration", the present work is trying to offer a complete, up-to-date compilation of the various agglomeration techniques and their applications. To that end, in addition to introducing the properties of agglomerates and the specific characteristics of the different technologies, descriptions of equipment and their special features for particular uses are the main topic of the book. Emphasis is on industrial applications, not theory.The explanations of details of equipment, processes, systems, plants, and applications as well as the descriptions of products and of their uses are largely based on information from vendors, the experience of the author as well as input from many of his colleagues that are active in this field. Therefore, it was decided that it is not necessary to collect the numerous individual publications that, in one way or another, report on technical and practical developments and review specific industrial features, applications, and products. Rather, with the exception of a few annotations (Section 13.2), reference is made to books or major chapters dealing with all facets of agglomeration and related subjects (Section 13.1) and to the vendors (Section 14.1) who, either by direct communication or through their technical sales literature and/or brochures, supplied the information that has been processed by the author to yield an unbiased presentation.Size enlargement by agglomeration is a unit operation of Mechanical Process Technology, the science which is concerned with all activities that are related to the processing and handling of particulate solids (see also Chapter 1). As has been repeatedly shown in the book, all unit operations of Mechanical Process Technology as well as the peripheral techniques (see Chapter 1, Fig. 1) are being used, sometimes several times, in the design and execution of agglomeration systems and plants. Therefore, in addition to what has been presented in Section 13.1 it should be pointed out, that some of the books in which major chapters deal with Agglomeration are also valuable sources of information on other topics of Mechanical Process Technology. Specifically, those references are (in numerical order): Winnacker-Kiichler "Chemical Technology" [B.11], "Handbook of Powder Technology" [B