Current Status and Prospects of Adsorption and Separation in Chemical Industry
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials in Separation Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2022) | Viewed by 307
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyclic adsorption processes (PSA, SMB); material sciences (MOFs, zeolites, carbons); processes intensification (PSAR, SMBR); heat integration (adsorption heat pumps/chillers)
Interests: cyclic adsorption separation processes; gas-phase adsorption; adsorbents; 3D printing; CO2 capture; membranes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pressure swing adsorption emerged as a technology almost 90 years ago, with the first patent published in 1932 by Finlayson and Sharp. The first commercial SMB operating process (UOP Molex) in the industry is almost 60 years old. Since then, the field of adsorption and its applications has broadened with the appearance of new applications and new materials. The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together research and advances on adsorption processes in different areas, such as in the petrochemical industry, environmental applications, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industry, as well as to connect and disseminate the main results and achievements of recent projects in these areas to the scientific community. Topics to be covered include recent theoretical and experimental developments on adsorption, new techniques and methods, adsorbent characterization, and adsorption processes as well as the synthesis and tailoring of novel adsorbents, including the assessment of materials and processes. Advances in adsorption modelling ranging from molecular simulations to process simulation and optimization are also included in the scope this Special Issue, with papers including optimization, meta-heuristic methods, and machine learning also being included.
Dr. Alexandre Ferreira
Dr. Maria João Regufe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adsorption
- simulated moving bed
- pressure swing adsorption
- adsorption equilibrium
- adsorption kinetics
- adsorbents/materials
- CO2 capture
- modeling
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