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Computer Methods for Solving Dynamic Separation Problems (C. D.
Holland and A. I. Liapis, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1983)
In this book a combination of the principles of separation processes, process
modelling, process control and numerical methods is used to describe the
dynamic behaviour of separation processes. The text is largely mathematical
and analytical in nature. Adsorption processes are commonly operated in a
cyclic manner involving complex sequences of individual steps which are
dynamic in nature and three chapters in this book specifically address this
separation process. Chapter 11 covers the fundamentals of adsorption
processes and includes physical adsorption of pure gases and mixtures, mass
transfer by convective transport and the roles of pore and surface diffusion
in the adsorption process. Chapter 12 addresses the separation of multicom-
ponent mixtures by the use of adsorption columns and includes the
Gleuckauf, film resistance and diffusion models and adiabatic operation of a
fixed bed adsorption column together with periodic operation. Chapter 14
addresses the thermodynamics of the physical adsorption of pure gases and
multicomponent gas mixtures.

Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 6th edition (edited by R.H.
Perry and D. Green, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1984)
In Section 16 of this general chemical engineering handbook, T. Ver-
meulen, M. D. LeVan, N. K. Hiester and G. Klein provide an overview
of adsorption and ion exchange. Subject matter includes sorbent
materials and sorbent-process analysis, fluid-sorbent equilibrium, equili-
brium-limited transitions, rate-limited constant pattern transitions, linear
equilibrium and other rate limited transitions, regeneration, chromato-
graphy, multivariant systems, multiple transitions, batch and continuous
processes. The authors' comprehensive yet concise approach is essentially
analytical in nature and descriptions of processes and equipment are not
included.

Principles of Adsorption and Adsorption Processes (D. M. Ruthven,
Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1984)
This book, written by an acknowledged expert in the field of adsorption,
provides comprehensive coverage of the basic principles of adsorption,
including the nature of microporous adsorbents and their characterization,
thermodynamics and equilibria, diffusion in porous media, kinetics in batch
systems, column dynamics and hydrodynamics. Coverage is extended to
multicomponent systems and the various simplifying assumptions which can
be made in design are well described. The book was not written to be a
design manual and so guidance on invoking simplifying assumptions is