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Preparative and Process Scale Liquid Chromatography (edited by G.
Subramanian, Ellis Horwood, New York, 1991)
Liquid phase chromatography provides a means of separating solutes by
making use of their different adsorption and desorption characteristics when
a solution is percolated through a column packed with a powdered or
granular adsorbent. On the large scale the technique is applied routinely and
with a high degree of reliability. The aim of this book is to give broad
coverage of the state of the art in the subject to those involved in preparative
and process scale separations.

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Volume 1, 4th
edition (edited by J. I. Krochwitz, John Wiley, New York, 1991)
S.A. Gembicki, A.R. Oroskar and J.A. Johnson provide a 107 page
general account of fundamental principles (including forces of adsorption,
selectivity, nature of surfaces, capillary condensation and practical
adsorbents), adsorption equilibrium, adsorption kinetics, column dynamics
and applications.

Chemical Engineering, Volume 2, 4th edition (J. M. Coulson and J. F.
Richardson with J.R. Backhurst and J.H. Harker, Pergamon Press,
Oxford, 1991)
Chapter 17 (78 pages) of this textbook, which is devoted to particle
technology and separation processes, provides a description of the common
adsorbents (their structure, properties and applications), adsorption equili-
bria and adsorption kinetics. The conservation equations which describe
isothermal and non-isothermal adsorption in a packed bed are provided and
there are basic descriptions of thermal swing, pressure swing, parametric
pumping and cycling zone processes, as well as moving bed processes
including Hypersorption, rotary beds, Sorbex, fluidized beds and compound
beds. The book is designed as an undergraduate text and the chapter on
adsorption is appropriate for students in the final years of undergraduate
degree courses. There is a comprehensive list of references. Chapters 18 and
19 describe the related subjects of ion exchange and chromatographic
separations, respectively.

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, 5th edition (W. L. McCabe,
J. C. Smith and P. Harriott, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993)
The twenty seven pages of Chapter 25 in this general chemical engineering
undergraduate textbook provide an introduction to the basic principles of
adsorption, including a brief descriptive account of equilibria. A description