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needed for adsorption design, including equilibria, types of breakthrough
and rate behaviour. R. A. Anderson then provides further, but still largely
descriptive, accounts of adsorption equilibria, mass transfer (particularly
the LUB approach), desorption and regeneration, and design considera-
tions which include thermal swing, pressure swing, purge gas stripping and
displacement techniques, deactivation and activation. Summary accounts
are also provided of practical design matters including choices of adsorbent,
flow direction, number of vessels, vessel configuration, vessel internals and
cycle time. There is an extensive bibliography.

Carbon Adsorption Handbook (edited by P.N. Cheremisinoff and F.
Ellerbusch, Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor, 1978)
This book comprises a collection of 27 chapters on gas and liquid phase
applications written by various contributors. Each chapter is essentially
descriptive in nature and thus the strength of the book lies principally in the
guidance of the reader towards practical application and not to the
development of theory. Applications which are described include purifica-
tion of industrial liquids, wastewater treatment, treatment of hazardous
industrial wastes, treatment of pesticides and pesticidal wastes, air purifica-
tion, aerosol and particulate removal, removal of organic and inorganic
species from water, cyanide removal from refinery wastewater, removal of
phenolic compounds from polluted water, and decolorization. Other
chapters deal with the regeneration of carbonaceous adsorbents and include
process aspects of regeneration in multiple hearth furnaces and develop-
ments in biological and wet air regeneration.

Adsorption (J. Ogcik, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1982)
The English translation of this book provides a detailed account of
adsorption phenomena from a physical chemistry perspective. Adsorption
at liquid-gas, solid-gas, solid-liquid and liquid-liquid interfaces is compre-
hensively described.

Treatment of Water by Granular Activated Carbon (edited by M.J.
McGuire and I.H. Suffet, American Chemical Society, Advances in
Chemistry Series No 202, Washington, 1983)
Almost all the papers in this book were presented at an ACS symposium on
activated carbon in 1981. The editors have presented the 22 papers under
four headings, namely theoretical approaches, modelling and competitive
adsorption effects, biological/adsorptive interactions and pilot- and large-
scale studies.