Table of Contents

Part 1 Introductory concepts: separation processes; thermodynamics of separation operations; mass transfer and diffusion; single equilibrium stages and flash calculations; cascades. Part 2 Separation by phase creation or addition: absorption and stripping of dilute mixtures; distillation of binary mixtures; liquid-liquid extraction with ternary systems; approximate methods for multicomponent, multistage separations; equilibrium-based methods for multicomponent absorption, distillation and extraction; enhanced distillation and supercritical extraction; rate-based models for distillation; batch distillation. Part 3 Separation by barriers and solid agents: membrane separations; absorption, ion exchange, and chromatography. Part 4 Separations involving a solid phase: leaching and washing; crystallization, desublimation, and evaporation; drying.

Reviews

"...an excellent book by two talented and distinguished American academics." (Chemical Engineering Research, July 2000)