Adsorption: Science and Technology

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I. Characterization of Adsorbents and Tthermodynamics of Adsorption.
• Characterization of adsorbents.
• Theories of adsorption in micropores.
• The statistical thermodynamic approach to the correlation of equilibrium data.
• A two-patch heterogeneous model with surface phase transition for benzene adsorption on silicalite.
• Interpretation of low temperature gas adsorption and desorption using stochastic pore networks.
• Adsorption of n-hexane and 3-methylpentane on zeolites Y and ZSM 20.
• II. Kinetics of Adsorption and Fixed-Bed Processes.
• Adsorption kinetics.
• Dynamics of fixed-bed adsorbers. Isothermal adsorption of single components.
• Asymptotic fixed-bed behavior: proportionate and constant patterns.
• Pore scale hydrodynamics.
• Separation processes based on electrosorption phenomena.
• Adsorptive reactors.
• Design aspects of fixed-bed adsorption processes.
• Numerical methods for the solution of adsorption models.
• III. Cyclic Processes and Simulated Moving Beds.
• Gas separation by pressure swing adsorption using carbon molecular sieves.
• Pressure swing adsorption technology.
• Modeling and simulation of rate induced PSA separations.
• Thermal swing adsorption.
• On countercurrent adsorption separation processes.
• Sorbex: continuing innovation in liquid phase adsorption.
• IV. Applications in Biotechnology and Environmental Engineering.
• The use of granular activated carbon for potable water treatment as an example of liquid phase applications of activated carbon.
• Breakthrough time of organic vapours in activated carbon filters as a function of the air flow pattern.
• Continuous adsorption in biotechnology.
• Continuous chromatographic processes.
• Biochemical reaction and separation in chromatographic columns.
• Some factors involved in scale-up of industrial biotechnologicaladsorption processes.
• Development of physical and mathematical modelling for scale-up of batch stirred tank and packed-bed column adsorption and chromatographic units.
• Optimisation of adsorption techniques for the purification of biomolecules.
• Gel filtration chromatography.
• Adsorption chromatography for protein purification.
• List of Lecturers and Participants.