Adsorption: Science and Technology

592 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

I. Characterization of Adsorbents and Tthermodynamics of Adsorption.- Characterization of adsorbents.- Theories of adsorption in micropores.- The statistical thermodynamic approach to the correlation of equilibrium data.- A two-patch heterogeneous model with surface phase transition for benzene adsorption on silicalite.- Interpretation of low temperature gas adsorption and desorption using stochastic pore networks.- Adsorption of n-hexane and 3-methylpentane on zeolites Y and ZSM 20.- II. Kinetics of Adsorption and Fixed-Bed Processes.- Adsorption kinetics.- Dynamics of fixed-bed adsorbers. Isothermal adsorption of single components.- Asymptotic fixed-bed behavior: proportionate and constant patterns.- Pore scale hydrodynamics.- Separation processes based on electrosorption phenomena.- Adsorptive reactors.- Design aspects of fixed-bed adsorption processes.- Numerical methods for the solution of adsorption models.- III. Cyclic Processes and Simulated Moving Beds.- Gas separation by pressure swing adsorption using carbon molecular sieves.- Pressure swing adsorption technology.- Modeling and simulation of rate induced PSA separations.- Thermal swing adsorption.- On countercurrent adsorption separation processes.- Sorbex: continuing innovation in liquid phase adsorption.- IV. Applications in Biotechnology and Environmental Engineering.- The use of granular activated carbon for potable water treatment as an example of liquid phase applications of activated carbon.- Breakthrough time of organic vapours in activated carbon filters as a function of the air flow pattern.- Continuous adsorption in biotechnology.- Continuous chromatographic processes.- Biochemical reaction and separation in chromatographic columns.- Some factors involved in scale-up of industrial biotechnologicaladsorption processes.- Development of physical and mathematical modelling for scale-up of batch stirred tank and packed-bed column adsorption and chromatographic units.- Optimisation of adsorption techniques for the purification of biomolecules.- Gel filtration chromatography.- Adsorption chromatography for protein purification.- List of Lecturers and Participants.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie
• ISBN: 9789401075145
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.10.2011
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: M Douglas Levan, A E Rodrigues, Daniel Tondeur