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of breakthrough curves is provided together with how they can be used to
design a fixed bed process using the length of unused bed (LUB) concept.
The chapter also provides introductory accounts of the conservation of mass
in a fixed bed adsorber, and of internal and external mass transfer
coefficients, irreversible adsorption and the limiting solution with a linear
isotherm. A few problems, worked solutions and references are provided at
the end of the chapter. This textbook also contains eight chapters relating to
fluid mechanics and seven chapters relating to heat transfer, many details of
which are relevant to the design and analysis of adsorption processes.

Carbon Adsorption for Pollution Control (N. P. Cheremisinoff and P. N.
Cheremisinoff, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1993)
The authors' intention has been to provide a practical book that can be used
by the practitioner as well as being useful as a basic reference for those who
wish to study carbon adsorption in the specific field of pollution control.
Material which might be too technical or theoretical has been avoided
intentionally since the volume is intended to provide a working knowledge
and description of adsorption processes involving activated carbon. The
book includes a basic coverage of the principles of adsorption processes, and
applications which cover the treatment of liquids, gas phase adsorption and
air pollution control, and the treatment of hazardous wastes. Remaining
chapters cover carbon regeneration, and exposure, controls and safety. A
sizeable part of the book is devoted to physical constants and conversion
factors. There are no references.

Pressure Swing Adsorption (D. M. Ruthven, D. Farooq and K.S.
Knaebel, VCH, New York, 1994)
This book provides a coherent and concise summary of the underlying
scientific principles and the technology of pressure swing adsorption. It is
aimed at the practising engineer and is indeed most suitable to those who
have a working knowledge of the subject, including graduate level students
and academics. Two chapters provide in-depth knowledge on equilibrium
theory and dynamic numerical solution and one chapter provides an
overview of commercial separations which include air drying, air separation,
hydrogen recovery, carbon dioxide recovery, methane recovery from
landfill gas, hydrocarbon separations, simultaneous production of hydrogen
and carbon dioxide from reformer off-gas and the concentration of trace
components. One chapter is devoted to extensions of the PSA concept to
parametric pumping, thermally coupled PSA, single column rapid PSA and
another chapter compares PSA with membrane-based separations. There is
substantial mathematical analysis to aid the understanding of principles,