Separation processes are an essential part of the chemical process industry, as they provide pure products, recover valuable chemicals, and clean water or other streams. While distillation remains the workhorse method of separation, it is not always the best choice due to the properties of the fluid components, so other separation methods must be employed: membrane separations, adsorption, absorption, filtration, extraction, or crystallization. Many of these alternative methods use porous materials as adsorbents or membranes. This volume emphasizes the understanding and the main practical applications of separation processes using porous materials. The three chapters provide a comprehensive overview of the basic principles and industrial practice of separation processes using porous materials. This volume, which is rich with practical examples, will help readers cut through the complexities of separations to find answers to everyday real-world problems.
Contents:
- Adsorption Separation Processes (Anton A Kiss and Tanja Dekic Zivkovic)
- Porous Ceramics — Basics and Applications in Food and Water Industries (Vitaly Gitis and Gadi Rothenberg)
- Membrane and Osmotic Distillation Processes (Nazely Diban, Olga Kattan and Anton A Kiss)
Readership: This comprehensive reference work is most suitable for university libraries as well as technical institutes, industrial R&D departments and national and key laboratories. It is written for researchers, graduate students and engineers working in materials science, the energy transition, chemistry and chemical engineering. An up-to-date reference as well as a roadmap of the latest characterisation methods and applications of porous materials, it is useful for professionals in both academia and industry.
Anton A Kiss is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Manchester and a holder of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is a Fellow of IChemE, with over 20 years of experience in industrial and academic research. Having worked at AkzoNobel Chemicals as Senior Project Manager and RD&I specialist in chemical process technology, he has a wealth of industrial experience in process systems engineering, process intensification, separation technology, and chemical process design. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in highly ranked journals, and over 15 book chapters or textbooks. Kiss has co-authored three popular books: Advanced Distillation Technologies, Integrated Design and Simulation of Chemical Processes, and Heat Pumps in Chemical Process Industry, and co-invented 9 patent families. He is an editorial board member of Chemical Engineering Research and Design and Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. As recognition for his work, he received the prestigious Hoogewerff Jongerenprijs and the AkzoNobel Innovation Excellence Award for the most successful industrial innovation in 2013, the Pirkey Distinguished Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2017, and the CHEMCON 2019 Distinguished Speaker Award for innovators and science leaders from the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. For more information see www.tonykiss.com
