Clear evidence of increasing demands in the processing industry prompted the editors and authors to publish a new book about High Pressure Process Technology: Fundamentals and Applications.
This book presents the latest knowledge regarding the high pressure processing aspects combined with that about the modeling, the design and the operation of safe and reliable high pressure plants and equipment. This treatment and selection of the subjects is stimulating and unique. Consisting of nine chapters, each subdivided into several sections, the book addresses the high pressure aspects, providing well selected correlated information connected with a comprehensive overview together with a large number of references.
The main body of the first eight chapters refers to subjects like high pressure in general, the thermodynamics and kinetics of the fluids involved, the design of high pressure equipment, the modeling and design of reactors, separation and fractionation units, the safety aspects, the control and economics.
In the extended last chapter, examples of promising high pressure applications are explained, such as chemical and enzymatic reactions in supercritical solvents, hydrogenation under supercritical conditions, supercritical water oxidation, polymerization with metallocene catalysts, supercritical extraction, fractionation and precipitation, supercritical pharma processing, ultra-high pressure sterilization and supercritical dry-cleaning.
1. Chapter 1: Introduction - p. xxiv 2. Chapter 2: Thermodynamic Properties at High Pressure - p. 15 3. Chapter 3: Kinetic Properties at High Pressure - p. 63 4. Chapter 4: Design and Construction of High-Pressure Equipment for Research and Production - p. 140 5. Chapter 5: Industrial Reaction Units - p. 242 6. 5.1 Reactors for homogeneous reactions - p. 243 7. 5.2 Hydrodynamics and mass transfer in fixed-bed gas-liquid-solid reactors operating at high pressure - p. 253 8. 5.3 Slurry catalytic reactors - p. 302 9. 5.4 Catalytic reactors for olefin polymerizations - p. 335 10. Chapter 6: Separation Operations and Equipment - p. 350 11. Chapter 7: Safety and Control in High Pressure Plant Design and Operation - p. 403 12. Chapter 8: Economics of High Pressure Processes - p. 435 13. Chapter 9: Applications - p. 471 14. 9.2: Enzymatic reactions - p. 485 15. 9.3: Hydrogenation under supercritical single-phase conditions - p. 495 16. 9.4: Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO). Application to industrial wastewater treatment - p. 508 17. 9.5: High-pressure polymerization with metallocene catalysts - p. 526 18. 9.6: Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Fractionation from Solid Materials - p. 536 19. 9.7: High pressure polymer processing - p. 575 20. 9.8: Precipitation of solids with dense gases - p. 586 21. 9.9: Pharmaceutical processing with supercritical fluids - p. 611 22. 9.10: Treating micro-organisms with high pressure - p. 625 23. 9.11: Dry-cleaning with liquid carbon dioxide - p. 640 24. Subject Index - p. 649
Clear evidence of increasing demands in the processing industry prompted the editors and authors to publish a new book about High Pressure Process Technology: Fundamentals and Applications.
This book presents the latest knowledge regarding the high pressure processing aspects combined with that about the modeling, the design and the operation of safe and reliable high pressure plants and equipment. This treatment and selection of the subjects is stimulating and unique. Consisting of nine chapters, each subdivided into several sections, the book addresses the high pressure aspects, providing well selected correlated information connected with a comprehensive overview together with a large number of references.
The main body of the first eight chapters refers to subjects like high pressure in general, the thermodynamics and kinetics of the fluids involved, the design of high pressure equipment, the modeling and design of reactors, separation and fractionation units, the safety aspects, the control and economics.
In the extended last chapter, examples of promising high pressure applications are explained, such as chemical and enzymatic reactions in supercritical solvents, hydrogenation under supercritical conditions, supercritical water oxidation, polymerization with metallocene catalysts, supercritical extraction, fractionation and precipitation, supercritical pharma processing, ultra-high pressure sterilization and supercritical dry-cleaning.
1. Chapter 1: Introduction - p. xxiv 2. Chapter 2: Thermodynamic Properties at High Pressure - p. 15 3. Chapter 3: Kinetic Properties at High Pressure - p. 63 4. Chapter 4: Design and Construction of High-Pressure Equipment for Research and Production - p. 140 5. Chapter 5: Industrial Reaction Units - p. 242 6. 5.1 Reactors for homogeneous reactions - p. 243 7. 5.2 Hydrodynamics and mass transfer in fixed-bed gas-liquid-solid reactors operating at high pressure - p. 253 8. 5.3 Slurry catalytic reactors - p. 302 9. 5.4 Catalytic reactors for olefin polymerizations - p. 335 10. Chapter 6: Separation Operations and Equipment - p. 350 11. Chapter 7: Safety and Control in High Pressure Plant Design and Operation - p. 403 12. Chapter 8: Economics of High Pressure Processes - p. 435 13. Chapter 9: Applications - p. 471 14. 9.2: Enzymatic reactions - p. 485 15. 9.3: Hydrogenation under supercritical single-phase conditions - p. 495 16. 9.4: Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO). Application to industrial wastewater treatment - p. 508 17. 9.5: High-pressure polymerization with metallocene catalysts - p. 526 18. 9.6: Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Fractionation from Solid Materials - p. 536 19. 9.7: High pressure polymer processing - p. 575 20. 9.8: Precipitation of solids with dense gases - p. 586 21. 9.9: Pharmaceutical processing with supercritical fluids - p. 611 22. 9.10: Treating micro-organisms with high pressure - p. 625 23. 9.11: Dry-cleaning with liquid carbon dioxide - p. 640 24. Subject Index - p. 649
