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appropriate for liquid phase contacting, and continuous contact processes
(such as fluidized and moving beds) are then described at some length to
complete the first half of the chapter. The approach adopted for design is
identical to that adopted for any steady state countercurrent separation
process. The second half of the chapter is devoted to unsteady state fixed bed
adsorbers and includes descriptive accounts of the adsorption wave,
percolation, elution and chromatography. The design approach is restricted
to the transfer unit concept. Problems, worked solutions and references for
further reading are provided at the end of the chapter. Part I of this textbook
(four chapters) provides a useful introduction to molecular diffusion in
fluids, mass transfer coefficients, diffusion in solids and interphase mass
transfer concepts.

Activated Carbon: Surface Chemistry and Adsorption from Solution
(J. S. Mattson and H. B. Mark, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1971)
The authors' aim was to produce a text which critically reviews the available
literature on solution adsorption phenomena and offers an interpretation of
the surface-related interactions of activated carbons that is consistent for the
adsorption of a wide variety of solutes ranging from strong electrolytes to
organic non-electrolytes. The seven chapters cover the activation of carbon,
surface oxygen functional groups and neutralization of base by acidic surface
oxides, spectroscopic methods for molecular structure determinations on
surfaces, nature of the electrical double layer, adsorption of electrolytes,
and adsorption of weak and non-electrolytes from aqueous solution.

Adsorption on Solids (V. Ponec, Z. Knor and S. (~erny, Butterworths,
London, 1.974)
The English translation of this book by D. Smith and N. G. Adams provides
a detailed account of theoretical approaches and experimental techniques of
adsorption. The subject matter, essentially comprising physical chemistry,
includes defined substances, defined surfaces and their preparation, meth-
ods for studying the texture of adsorbents, methods of studying adsorption,
the surface structure of solids, theories of adsorption forces, adsorption
kinetics and thermodynamics, theories of adsorption equilibria, the mech-
anisms of physical adsorption and chemisorption, adsorption from flowing
gases and liquids, practical applications of adsorption, adsorption from
solutions and the relationship between adsorption and catalysis.

Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design, volume 2 (edited by
J. J. McKetta, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1977)
T. Vermeulen provides a brief (12 page) introduction to the information