Diffusion in Zeolites and Other Microporous Solids [Hardcover]

Jorg Karger (Author), Douglas Morris Ruthven (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0471509078 | ISBN-13: 978-0471509073 | Publication Date: April 1992 | Edition: 1

Summarizes and reviews both the major experimental techniques and theories that have been developed and applied in the study of diffusion in microporous solids. Covers the most important works--including those published in eastern bloc countries that have received limited coverage in the west--available on the subject today. Provides a theoretical framework, experimental methods and a comprehensive review of experimental data that illustrates the application of those methods. Additionally, it offers a summary of technological aspects of diffusion limited processes. S.I. Units as well as Torr and the atmosphere as units of pressure are used throughout.

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Summarizes and reviews both the major experimental techniques and theories that have been developed and applied in the study of diffusion in microporous solids. Covers the most important works--including those published in eastern bloc countries that have received limited coverage in the west--available on the subject today. Provides a theoretical framework, experimental methods and a comprehensive review of experimental data that illustrates the application of those methods. Additionally, it offers a summary of technological aspects of diffusion limited processes. S.I. Units as well as Torr and the atmosphere as units of pressure are used throughout.

About the Author

Jorg Karger obtained his PhD from the University of Leipzig in 1970, followed by his Habilitation in 1978. He served as a faculty member at the University of Leipzig and in 1994 he was appointed Professor of Experimental Physics and Head of the Department of Interface Physics. To promote the subject he organized a series of popular lectures with demonstration experiments that attracted considerable attention and even an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest bicycle bell orchestra! He and his students have published numerous research papers, mainly in the area of diffusion. He is the founding editor of the on-line journal/conference series Diffusion Fundamentals and the author/editor of the bilingual guidebook Leipzig, Einstein, Diffusion (2007), published by Leipzig University Press to commemorate the publication (in Leipzig) of two seminal papers on diffusion by Adolf Fick (1855) and Albert Einstein (1905). He is co-author of the first edition of the present book (Wiley, New York, 1992) and of the textbook Diffusion in Condensed Matter (add publ. details and year). He has received the Gustav-Hertz Prize of the German Physics Society (1978), the Donald Breck Award of the International Zeolite Association (1986) and the Max Planck Research Award (1993). He was elected to the Saxon Academy of Sciences in 2000. Douglas Ruthven was educated at the University of Cambridge where he studied natural sciences and chemical engineering (PhD. 1966; ScD. 1988). He served as a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, Canada (1966 - 1995) and at the University of Maine (1995 - 2010) where he was Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department. He and his students have published numerous research papers, mainly in the area of adsorption and adsorption processes. In addition to the first edition of the present book (Wiley, New York, 1992) he is the author of Principles of Adsorption and Adsorption Processes (John Wiley, New York, 1984), co-author of Pressure Swing Adsorption (Wiley-V.C.H., New York, 1994) and editor of the Encyclopedia of Separations Technology (Wiley, New York, 1997). He has received a number of awards including the Max Planck Research Award (1993), a Century of Achievement Award from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (1997) and a Humboldt Senior Fellowship (2002). He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1989. Doros Theodorou is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. After obtaining his Diploma at NTU Athens and his M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1985) from M.I.T., he taught for nine years at the University of California, Berkeley, resigning as full professor to return to Greece in 1995. He was among the first to exploit the power of numerical simulation to study adsorption kinetics and equilibria. His recent research has focused on the development and application of new, hierarchical computational methods for understanding and predicting the properties of materials from their chemical constitution. His work has been recognized by a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation (U.S.A.) (1988-1992), the 1996 Bodossakis Award for Chemistry, and the Danckwerts Lectureship (2006) awarded by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 605 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (April 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471509078
• ISBN-13: 978-0471509073
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,078,039 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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