Adsorption Process in Chemical Engineering

A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2025 | Viewed by 2065

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes 20256, Mexico
Interests: adsorption for water treatment and purification; biofuel production, global and multi-objective process optimization; applied thermodynamics

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Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías (Conahcyt), Mexico City, Mexico
Interests: adsorption for water treatment; materials science

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Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías (Conahcyt), Mexico City, Mexico
Interests: biofuel production; separation processes

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Dear Colleagues,

Adsorption is a crucial separation process in chemical engineering and is widely applied in diverse fields, such as environmental remediation, the industrial purification of value-added chemicals, carbon dioxide capture, water treatment, catalysis, and energy storage. The sustainability and efficacy of this technology rely on diverse parameters such as process operating conditions (e.g., temperature, pressure, and pH), adsorbate chemistry, physicochemical adsorbent properties, and process configuration. The research on and application of process systems engineering in adsorption play a fundamental role in ensuring its cost-effectiveness and environmental sustainability. Adsorption is a consolidated technology in which a wide spectrum of adsorbents (activated carbons, zeolites, molecular sieves, nanomaterials, metallic organic frameworks, and other advanced materials) can be synthetized and tailored for specific applications. However, the current challenges facing our society such as resource limitations, environmental production, energy production, and climate change demand the implementation of versatile and improved adsorption processes.

Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on, but is not limited to, theoretical and experimental advancements and developments related to the process systems engineering of adsorption as follows: the synthesis, characterization, and functionalization of novel multifunctional adsorbents computer-aided design of adsorbent preparation routes; the modeling of batch and continuous multicomponent adsorption systems; the control and optimization of adsorption processes; the design of intensified adsorption processes; computational tools for adsorption process engineering; the industrial design and scale-up of adsorption-based separations; artificial intelligence-based adsorption applications; life cycle analysis; circular-based production and supply chains of traditional and novel adsorbents; and case studies on the applications of emerging adsorbents in environmental depollution processes, industrial separations, energy storage, carbon dioxide capture, and the recovery of value-added products. The authors are invited to submit original research papers, reviews, and short communications. 

Prof. Dr. Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet
Prof. Dr. Didilia Ileana Mendoza-Castillo
Prof. Dr. Hilda Elizabeth Reynel-Ávila
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Keywords

  • adsorbents
  • depollution
  • energy storage
  • environmental remediation
  • intensification
  • modeling
  • adsorption engineering
  • process systems engineering
  • sustainable separation
  • value-added products

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Heavy Metal Removal from Water Using Graphene Oxide in Magnetic-Assisted Adsorption Systems: Characterization, Adsorption Properties, and Modelling
by A. P. Melchor-Durán, M. R. Moreno-Virgen, A. Bonilla-Petriciolet, H. E. Reynel-Ávila, E. Lucio Ortiz and O. F. González-Vázquez
Separations 2024, 11(10), 294; https://doi.org/10.3390/separations11100294 - 12 Oct 2024
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This study investigated the adsorption properties of graphene oxide in a magnetic-assisted adsorber for the depollution of water containing heavy metals. Two samples of graphene oxide with different surface chemistry were synthetized and assessed using the magnetic-assisted adsorption systems. One graphene oxide sample [...] Read more.
This study investigated the adsorption properties of graphene oxide in a magnetic-assisted adsorber for the depollution of water containing heavy metals. Two samples of graphene oxide with different surface chemistry were synthetized and assessed using the magnetic-assisted adsorption systems. One graphene oxide sample exhibited a dual magnetic behavior presenting both diamagnetic and ferromagnetic phases, while the other graphene oxide was diamagnetic. The adsorption properties of these graphene oxide samples for removing Pb2+ and Cu2+ were tested and compared with and without a magnetic field exposure. The results showed that the Pb2+ removal increased using both graphene oxide samples in the magnetic-assisted configuration, while Cu2+ adsorption was less sensitive to the application of the magnetic field. A monolayer model was used to simulate all the heavy metal adsorption isotherms quantified experimentally. It was concluded that the adsorption mechanism designed to remove Pb2+ and Cu2+ using tested graphene oxide samples was mainly multi-ionic where two metallic cations could interact with one active site (i.e., oxygenated functional groups) from the adsorbent surface. The oxygenated surface functionalities of graphene oxide samples played a relevant role in determining the impact of magnetic field exposure on the heavy metal removal efficacy. Magnetic-assisted adsorption using graphene oxide is an interesting alternative to reduce the concentration of Pb2+ in polluted effluents, and it can also be applied to improve the performance of adsorbents with a limited concentration of oxygenated functional groups, which usually show poor removal of challenging water pollutants such as toxic heavy metals. Full article
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