Adsorptive Separation - From Fundamentals to Practice

Comprehensive resource on adsorption processes and separation for practitioners in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and food sectors

Adsorptive Separation introduces the basic principles of adsorption from a chemical engineering point of view and discusses the underlying principles of the subject, such as adsorption equilibrium, equilibrium isotherms and adsorption kinetics, as well as modeling and simulation tools. The final part of the book focuses on Cyclic Adsorption Processes (PSA, TSA, ESA, PP, EBA, and SMB) and Cyclic Adsorption/Reaction Processes (SMBR, PermSMBR, and SERP).

To enable readers to understand the principles and experimental techniques discussed, the text is supported by many real-life case studies from the chemical, pharmaceutical, and food sectors

Written by two highly qualified academics with decades of research experience in the field, Adsorptive Separation includes information on:

• Types of adsorbents (activated carbon, carbon molecular sieves, zeolites, silica, alumina, polymeric resins, and MOFs) and their characterization (selectivity, capacity, and pore size distribution)
• Adsorption as a chemical engineering unit operation and wave propagation phenomenon, and dispersive and compressive fronts of the De Vault equation
• Batch adsorption, covering isothermal operation (equilibrium line and operating line), regeneration, inert core adsorbents, and non-isothermal adsorption
• Types of adsorption isotherms models (Langmuir, Frumkin, BET, and Freundich), and multicomponent equilibria (IAST, RAST, and others)

Providing valuable insight by covering the topic of adsorption from underlying principles to modeling/simulation tools as well as applications throughout the industry, Adsorptive Separation is an essential resource for chemists, chromatographers, process engineers, professionals in the food and pharmaceutical industries, and students in related programs of study.