Liquid Filtration

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Elsevier, Aug 30, 1998 - Technology & Engineering - 320 pages

Liquid Filtration is a state-of-the-art review of liquid filtration in the chemical process and allied industries. Interpretations of the phenomenological observations of the hydrodynamics of filtration are given in the hopes of establishing more theoretical and generalized bases of design methodology. Specific design and selection criteria are reviewed, and typical industrial problems and their solutions are presented.

Nicholas Cheremisinoff is known internationally as one of the foremost engineers with Exxon and as the author of numerous books, articles and periodical contributions. Most recently his international consulting role has seen him active the Ukraine, part of the former Soviet Union, where the modernising of these industrial processes has been key.

Liquid Filtration is a fundamental unit operation extensively practiced throughout the chemical process, petroleum, and allied industries. It involves the separation, removal, and collection of a discrete phase of matter existing in a dispersed or colloidal state in suspension. This separation is most often performed in the presence of a complex media structure in which physical, physiochemical and/or electrokinetic forces interact.

  • Guide to an essential industrial operation
  • Single reference source for many industries
  • Author has world-wide experience and reputation
 

Contents

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Liquid Filtration
1
Chapter 2 Filter Media and Use of Filter Aids
19
Chapter 3 Cake Filtration and Filter Media Filtration
59
Chapter 4 Industrial Filtration Equipment
88
Chapter 5 Application of Filtration to Wastewater Treatment
142
Chapter 6 Advanced Membrane Technology for Wastewater Treatment
163
Chapter 7 Sludge Dewatering Operations
211
Chapter 8 Industrial Wastewater Sources
229
Chapter 9 Filtration Equipment and Process Flow Sheets
272
Index
316
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Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Ph.D. (Ch.E.) is Director of Clean Technologies and Pollution Prevention Projects at PERI (Princeton Energy Resources International, LLC, Rockville, MD). He has led hundreds of pollution prevention audits and demonstrations; training programs on modern process design practices and plant safety; environmental management and product quality programs; and site assessments and remediation plans for both public and private sector clients throughout the world. He frequently serves as expert witness on personal injury and third-party property damage litigations arising from environmental catastrophes. Dr. Cheremisinoff has contributed extensively to the literature of environmental and chemical engineering as author, co-author, or editor of 150 technical reference books, including Butterworth-Heinemann’s Handbook of Chemical Processing Equipment, and Green Profits.He holds advanced degrees in chemical engineering from Clarkson College of Technology."

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