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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.
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