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scattered throughout the text. The casual reader may therefore gain the
impression that the only way to design an industrial adsorption column is to
carry out a full rigorous design. The book also overviews some important
commercial processes including those using pressure swing and thermal
swing cycles. The engineering aspects are comprehensively underpinned by
the scientific fundamentals and so it is appropriate for a broad range of
scientists and engineers who have some experience of the subject and as a
graduate-level textbook. Each of the 12 chapters contains its own compre-
hensive list of references.
Adsorption Technology: A Step by Step Approach to Process Evaluation
and Application (F. L. Slejko, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1985)
The aim of this book was to provide chemists and engineers with four tools.
The first is a working knowledge of basic adsorption theory in order to aid in
the design of laboratory and pilot plant experiments and later to help in
understanding the meaning of the results. The second is the information
necessary for designing and carrying out screening studies of adsorbents.
The third is information for designing a conceptual full-scale adsorption
plant. The final tool is an appreciation that adsorption technology is not
limited to any one kind of adsorbent, but is fundamental to a broad class of
materials. The text is largely descriptive with applications concentrated
mostly on liquid phase applications.
Large Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, Volumes I and II (P. C.
Wankat, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1986)
The author's aim was to present a unified, up-to-date development of
operating methods used for large-scale adsorption and chromatography.
Methods were gathered together, classified and compared and the solute
movement or local equilibrium theory used as the main underlying theory.
Mass transfer and dispersion effects are included with the non-linear mass
transfer zone (MTZ) and linear chromatographic models. More complex
theories are referenced but not discussed in detail. Volume I contains
chapters on the physical picture and simple theories for adsorption and
chromatography, packed bed operations and cyclic operations including
pressure swing adsorption, parametric pumping and cycling zone adsorp-
tion. Volume II contains chapters on large-scale chromatographic separa-
tions, moving bed and simulated moving bed countercurrent systems,
hybrid chromatographic processes, two-dimensional and centrifugal operat-
ing methods.