Adsorbents: Fundamentals and Applications

A comprehensive analysis of essential new technologies
Adsorption promises to play an integral role in several future energy and environmental technologies, including hydrogen storage, CO removal for fuel cell technology, desulfurization of transportation fuels, and technologies for meeting higher standards on air and water pollutants. Ralph Yang’s Adsorbents provides a single and comprehensive source of knowledge for all commercial and new sorbent materials, presenting the fundamental principles for their syntheses, their adsorption properties, and their present and potential applications for separation and purification. Chapter topics in this authoritative, forward–looking volume include:Formulas for calculating the basic forces or potentials for adsorptionCalculation of pore–size distribution from a single adsorption isothermRules for sorbent selectionFundamental principles for syntheses/preparation, adsorption properties, and applications of commercially available sorbentsMesoporous molecular sieves and zeolites¸–complexation sorbents and their applicationsCarbon nanotubes, pillared clays, and polymeric resins
Yang covers the explosion in the development of new nanoporous materials thoroughly, as the adsorption properties of some of these materials have remained largely unexplored. The whole of the text benefits from the new adsorbent designs made possible by the increase in desktop computing and molecular simulation, making Adsorbents useful to both practicing laboratories and graduate programs. Ralph Yang’s comprehensive study contributes significantly to the resolution of separation and purification problems by adsorption technologies.

Spis treści:
Preface.
1. Introductory Remarks.
2. Fundamental Factors for Designing Adsorbent.
3. Sorbent Selection: Equilibrium Isotherms, Diffusion, Cyclic Processes, and Sorbent S election Criteria.
4. Pore Size Distribution.
5. Activated Carbon.
6. Silica Gel, MCM, and Activated Alumina.
7. Zeolites and Molecular Sieves.
8. π–Complexation Sorbents and Applications.
9. Carbon Nanotubes, Pillared Clays, and Polymeric Resins.
10. Sorbents for Applications.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Nota biograficzna:
RALPH T. YANG, PhD, is Dwight F. Benton Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Okładka tylna:
A comprehensive analysis of essential new technologies
Adsorption promises to play an integral role in several future energy and environmental technologies, including hydrogen storage, CO removal for fuel cell technology, desulfurization of transportation fuels, and technologies for meeting higher standards on air and water pollutants. Ralph Yang’s Adsorbents provides a single and comprehensive source of knowledge for all commercial and new sorbent materials, presenting the fundamental principles for their syntheses, their adsorption properties, and their present and potential applications for separation and purification. Chapter topics in this authoritative, forward–looking volume include:Formulas for calculating the basic forces or potentials for adsorptionCalculation of pore–size distribution from a single adsorption isothermRules for sorbent selectionFundamental principles for syntheses/preparation, adsorption properties, and applications of commercially available sorbentsMesoporous molecular sieves and zeolites¸–complexation sorbents and their applicationsCarbon nanotubes, pillared clays, and polymeric resins
Yang covers the explosion in the development of new nanoporous materials thoroughly, as the adsorption properties of some of these materials have remained largely unexplored. The whole of the text benefits from the new adso rbent designs made possible by the increase in desktop computing and molecular simulation, making Adsorbents useful to both practicing laboratories and graduate programs. Ralph Yang’s comprehensive study contributes significantly to the resolution of separation and purification problems by adsorption technologies.