Separation Process Principles 2ed

This book examines rate-based and equilibrium-based approaches to separation operations. It describes the fundamentals of all separation operations of commercial interest, and includes theory and application examples in each chapter, as well as over 600 exercises.

Separation Processes.Thermodynamics of Separation Operations.Mass Transfer and Diffusion.Single Equilibrium Stages and Flash Calculations.Cascades.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, Stripping, Distillation, and Extraction.Enhanced Distillation and Supercritical Extraction.Rate-Based Models for Distillation.Batch Distillation.Membrane Separations.Absorption, Ion Exchange, and Chromatography.Index.