Book description
Progress in Filtration and Separation contains reference content on fundamentals, core principles, technologies, processes, and applications. It gives detailed coverage of the latest technologies and research, models, applications and standards, practical implementations, case studies, best practice, and process selection. Extensive worked examples are included that cover basic calculations through to process design, including the effects of key variables. Techniques and topics covered include pervaporation, electrodialysis, ion exchange, magnetic (LIMS, HIMS, HGMS), ultrasonic, and more.- Solves the needs of university based researchers and R&D engineers in industry for high-level overviews of sub-topics within the solid-liquid separation field
- Provides insight and understanding of new technologies and methods
- Combines the expertise of several separations experts
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of Contributors
- Chapter One. Hydrocyclones
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Section One. Membrane filters
- Chapter Two. Dynamic Filtration with Rotating Disks, and Rotating or Vibrating Membranes
- Chapter Three. Membrane Distillation (MD)
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Chapter Four. Pervaporation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fundamentals of Pervaporation
- 3. Pervaporation Membranes
- 4. Hydrophilic Pervaporation: Applications in Dehydration
- 5. Hydrophobic Pervaporation
- 6. Organophilic Pervaporation
- 7. Hybrid Systems
- 8. Ethanol Purification and Production of Bio-Ethanol
- 9. Pervaporation Membrane Reactors
- 10. Conclusions
- Chapter Five. Liquid – Membrane Filters
- Chapter Six. Electrodialysis
- Section Two. Force field assisted separators
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Section Three. Membranes
- Chapter Ten. Ion Exchange
- Chapter Eleven. Hot Gas Filters
- Chapter Twelve. Air Tabling—A Dry Gravity Solid–Solid Separation Technique
- Chapter Thirteen. Gas–Gas Separation by Membranes
- Chapter Fourteen. Surface Area: Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET)
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Chapter Fifteen. Particle Shape Characterization by Image Analysis
- Nomenclature
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Image Acquisition
- 3. Image Treatment
- 4. Basic Size Descriptors
- 5. Shape Descriptors
- 6. Twinned Crystals and Agglomerates
- 7. Fractal-like Particles
- 8. Biological Particles
- 9. Case of In situ Images
- 10. Selection of Magnification
- 11. Distributions
- 12. 3D Shape
- 13. Conclusions
- Chapter Sixteen. Turbidity: Measurement of Filtrate and Supernatant Quality?
- Chapter Seventeen. Capillary Suction Time (CST)
- Index
Product information
- Title: Progress in Filtration and Separation
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): Academic Press
- ISBN: 9780123983077
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