Series on Chemical Engineering [Vol. 1-4]

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1. Gas Separation by Adsorption Processes
Gas Separation by Adsorption Processes is a complete treatise on all aspects of adsorptive processes. It covers all fundamental principles as well as process design and simulation of gas adsorption processes for separation and purification. This highly popular book in the field has now been reprinted and made available in paperback form.

Contents:
Adsorbents and Adsorption Isotherms
Equilibrium Adsorption of Gas Mixtures
Rate Processes in Adsorbers
Adsorber Dynamics: Bed Profiles and Breakthrough Curves
Cyclic Gas Separation Processes
Pressure-Swing Adsorption: Principles and Processes
Pressure-Swing Adsorption: Models and Experiments

Readership: Professionals and students interested in gas separation and purification processes.

2. Adsorption Analysis: Equilibria and Kinetics
This book covers topics of equilibria and kinetics of adsorption in porous media. Fundamental equilibria and kinetics are dealt with for homogeneous as well as heterogeneous particles. Five chapters of the book deal with equilibria and eight chapters deal with kinetics. Single component as well as multicomponent systems are discussed. In kinetics analysis, we deal with the various mass transport processes and their interactions inside a porous particle. Conventional approaches as well as the new approach using Maxwell–Stefan equations are presented. Various methods to measure diffusivity, such as the Differential Adsorption Bed (DAB), the time lag, the diffusion cell, chromatography, and the batch adsorber methods are also covered by the book. It can be used by lecturers and engineers who wish to carry out research in adsorption. A number of programming codes written in MatLab language are included so that readers can use them directly to better understand the behavior of single and multicomponent adsorption systems.

Contents:
Equilibria:
Fundamentals of Pure Component Adsorption Equilibria
Practical Approaches of Pure Component Adsorption Equilibria
Pure Component Adsorption in Microporous Solids
Multicomponent Adsorption Equilibria
Heterogeneous Adsorption Equilibria
Kinetics:
Fundamentals of Diffusion and Adsorption in Porous Media
Diffusion in Porous Media: Maxwell-Stefan Approach
Analysis of Adsorption Kinetics in a Single Homogeneous Particle
Analysis of Adsorption Kinetics in a Zeolite Particle
Analysis of Adsorption Kinetics in a Heterogeneous Particle
Measurement Techniques:
Time Lag in Diffusion and Adsorption in Porous Media
Analysis of Steady State and Transient Diffusion Cells
Adsorption and Diffusivity Measurement by a Chromatography Method
Analysis of a Batch Adsorber

Readership: Lecturers and students in adsorption analysis, and engineers.

3. Batch Distillation
The batch distillation process has existed for many centuries. It is perhaps the oldest technology for separating or purifying liquid mixtures and is the most frequently used separation method in batch processes. In the last 25 years, with continuous development of faster computers and sophisticated numerical methods, there have been many published works using detailed mathematical models with rigorous physical property calculations and advanced optimisation techniques to address several important issues, such as selection of column configurations, design, operation, off-cut recycling, use of batch distillation in reactive and extractive modes, etc.

Batch Distillation: Design and Operation presents excellent, important contributions of many researchers from around the globe, including those of the author and his co-workers.

Contents:
Column Configurations
Operation
Modelling and Simulation
Dynamic Optimisation
Multiperiod Operation Optimisation
Design and Operation Optimisation
Off-Cut Recycle
Batch Reactive Distillation (Bread)
Batch Extractive Distillation (Bed)
Unconventional Batch Distillation
Application of Neural Networks in Batch Distillation

Readership: Graduate students, academics, researchers and practitioners in chemical, environmental and industrial engineering.

4. Nanoporous Materials: Science and Engineering
Porous materials are of scientific and technological importance because of the presence of voids of controllable dimensions at the atomic, molecular, and nanometer scales, enabling them to discriminate and interact with molecules and clusters. Interestingly the big deal about this class of materials is about the “nothingness” within — the pore space. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) classifies porous materials into three categories — micropores of less than 2 nm in diameter, mesopores between 2 and 50 nm, and macropores of greater than 50 nm. In this book, nanoporous materials are defined as those porous materials with pore diameters less than 100 nm.

Over the last decade, there has been an ever increasing interest and research effort in the synthesis, characterization, functionalization, molecular modeling and design of nanoporous materials. The main challenges in research include the fundamental understanding of structure-property relations and tailor-design of nanostructures for specific properties and applications. Research efforts in this field have been driven by the rapid growing emerging applications such as biosensor, drug delivery, gas separation, energy storage and fuel cell technology, nanocatalysis and photonics. These applications offer exciting new opportunities for scientists to develop new strategies and techniques for the synthesis and applications of these materials.

This book provides a series of systematic reviews of the recent developments in nanoporous materials. It covers the following topics: (1) synthesis, processing, characterization and property evaluation; (2) functionalization by physical and/or chemical treatments; (3) experimental and computational studies on fundamental properties, such as catalytic effects, transport and adsorption, molecular sieving and biosorption; (4) applications, including photonic devices, catalysis, environmental pollution control, biological molecules separation and isolation, sensors, membranes, hydrogen and energy storage, etc.

Contents:
Nanoporous Materials — An Overview (G Q Lu & X S Zhao)
Advances in Mesoporous Materials Templated by Nonionic Block Copolymers (C Yu et al.)
Zeolite/Mesoporous Molecular Sieve Composite Materials (D T On & S Kaliaguine)
Chromium-Containing Ordered Nanoporous Materials (P Selvam)
Surfactant-Templated Mesostructured Materials: Synthesis and Compositional Control (M S Wong & W V Knowles)
Organic Host-Guest Structures in the Solid State (A Nangia)
Nonsurfactant Route to Nanoporous Phenyl-Modified Hybrid Silica Materials (Y Wei et al.)
3D Macroporous Photonic Materials Templated by Self Assembled Colloidal Spheres (Z C Zhou & X S Zhao)
Hydrophobic Microporous Silica Membranes for Gas Separation and Membrane Reactors (S Giessler et al.)
Synthesis and Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes for Hydrogen Storage (H-M Cheng et al.)
Physical Adsorption Characterization of Ordered and Amorphous Mesoporous Materials (M Thommes)
Molecular Simulation of Adsorption in Porous Materials (D Nicholson)
Surface Functionalization of Ordered Nanoporous Silicates (X S Zhao et al.)
Surface Alumination of Mesoporous Silicates (R Mokaya)
Acidity Measurement of Nanoporous Aluminosilicates — Zeolites and MCM-41 (J Zheng et al.)
Nanocatalysts Prepared by the Molecularly Designed Dispersion Process (P Cool et al.)
Acidity-enhanced Nanoporous Catalytic Materials (F-S Xiao & Y Han)
Modified Mesoporous Materials as Acid and Base Catalysts (D J Macquarrie)
Lewis Acid/Base Catalysts Supported on Nanoporous Silica as Environmental Catalysts (V R Choudhary & B S Uphade)
Nanoporous Catalysts for Shape-Selective Synthesis of Specialty Chemicals: A Review of Synthesis of 4,4'-Dialkylbiphenyl (J-P Shen & C Song)
Catalysis Involving Mesoporous Molecular Sieves (W S Ahn et al.)
Adsorption and Transport in Nanoporous Materials (J P B Mota)
Adsorption of Organic Molecules in Nanoporous Adsorbents from Aqueous Solution (R Denoyel)
Functionalized Nanoporous Adsorbents for Environmental Remediation (M C Burleigh & S Dai)
Nanoporous Adsorbents for Air Pollutant Removal (P Le Cloirrec)
Bioadsorption and Separation with Nanoporous Materials (A Daehler et al.)
Nanoporous Materials as Supports for Enzyme Immobilization (H H P Yiu & P A Wright)
A Novel Non-surfactant Route to Nanoporous Materials and its Biological Applications (Y Wei & K-Y Qiu)

Readership: Researchers in nanotechnology, chemical engineering, physical chemistry and solid state chemistry.