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Chemical engineering separation techniques; distillation and beyond

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General treatments of separation techniques

·         Classification and list of techniques

·         Sherwood plots: log(price) versus log(concentration)

·         1987 NRC: from oxygen to penicillin

·         Dining at the Periodic Table: Metals Concentrations as They Relate to Recycling
Jeremiah Johnson, E. M. Harper, Reid Lifset, and T. E. Graedel
Environ. Sci. Technol., 2007, 41, (5), pp 1759–1765.

·         Biological Products:  Chemical Product Design, by E.L. Cussler and G.D. Moggridge, Cambridge University Press (2001), Figure 6.2-1 on page 164.

·         About Sherwood

·         Selection of waste treatment method

·         Capturing CO2 from Coal-Fired Power Plants

·         Aqueous Processes

·         Handbook of Separation Process Technology

·         Chapter VIII in The Engineering Handbook, 2nd edition, edited by R.C. Dorf (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2005)

·         Separation sequence synthesis  (search “Separations Process Synthesis”) 

·         Excellent selection tree: Figure 4-28 on pp 227,228 in “Chemical Engineering Process Design and Economics: A Practical Guide,” 2nd edition, by G.D. Ulrich and P.T. Vasudevan (Process Publishing, Durham, N.H., 2004)

·         Separation Process Principles, by J.D. Seader and E.J. Henley (Wiley, NY, 1998): 660.2842 S438s

·         Separation Process Technology: 660.2842 H926s

·         Recent Developments in Separation Science: 660.2842 L693r &  660.2842 R295

·         An Introduction to Separation Science: 544 K18i

·         Separation and Purification: 542 T255, v.12

Distillation, absorption, stripping, extraction

·         Thermodynamic models

Solids Separation

·         Search Kirk-Othmer and Engineering Village

·         Solid-gas separations: 620.43 H236, v.3

·         Solid-liquid separations: 660.2842 S6865

·         In HYSYS/UniSim, either click on F12 or Flowsheet, Add Operation and select Solids Handling, where you will find the following solid separations units:

·         Hazard Analysis for Dust-Handling Operations

Biotechnology separations

·         Search Kirk-Othmer and Engineering Village

·         Separation Processes in the Food and Biotechnology Industries

·         Separation and Purification Techniques in Biotechnology

·         Separation Processes in Biotechnology: 660.6 S479

·         Bioseparations: Downstream Processing for Biotechnology: 660.63 B453b

·         Bioseparations Engineering: Principles, Practice, and Economics, M.R. Ladisch, Wiley, NY (2001) ISBN 0471244767.

·         Methods of protein separation: 574.19245 M592

·         Microfiltration and ultrafiltration : principles and applications: 660.284245 Z53m

·         Membrane separations in biotechnology: 660.284245 M533

·         Biotechnology Progress

·         Biotechnology and Bioengineering

·         Journal of Biotechnology

·         Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology

·         Trends in Biotechnology

·         Protein Expression and Purification

·         Purifying Monoclonal Antibodies

Membrane separations

·         Handbook of Membrane Separations

·         Ultrafiltration handbook: 660.284245 C521u

·         Pervaporation

·         Handbook of Industrial Membrane Technology

·         Membrane Separation Systems - Recent Developments and Future Directions 

·         Membrane separations in biotechnology: 660.284245 M533

·         Journal of Membrane Science

·         Search “Membrane”at Kirk-Othmer and Engineering Village

·         Capturing CO2 using Membranes

Chromatography, ion exchange, adsorption

·         Search Kirk-Othmer and Engineering Village

·         Simulated moving bed chromatography; Use for separation of chiral molecules

·         Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography: 543.089 W247L

·         Preparative-scale chromatography: 543.089 P926

·         Dynamics of chromatography: 544.92 G453d

·         Ion exchangers; properties and applications: 541.372 D695i3

·         Adsorption, dialysis and ion exchange: 660.28423 A512ad

·         Principles of adsorption and adsorption processes: 660.28423 R976p

·         Journal of Chromatography

Other separation techniques

·         Search Kirk-Othmer and Engineering Village

·         Design manual for liquid-liquid separations (coalescers)

·         Supercritical Fluid Extraction

·         Supercritical fluid technology: 660.296 S959

·         Centrifugal techniques: 542 T255, v. 16

·         Techniques of melt crystallization: 542 T255, v.19

·         Surfactant-based separation processes: 660.2842 S961

·         Removing potential organic carcinogens and precursors from drinking water: 628.5 U58e, 1980, no.130a

·         Liquid Filtration edited by Clarkson alum

HYSYS/UniSim:  Note that the palette shows only some of the built-in separation methods.  Click on Flowsheet, Add Operation (or press F12), then select one of the classes than include separation methods (Vessels, Solids Handling, Prebuilt Columns, Short Cut Columns, Upstream Ops).

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Last updated May 8, 2009.  Please send comments, suggestions, corrections and questions to Professor William R. Wilcox

 

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