Adsorption Process in Chemical Engineering
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2025 | Viewed by 186
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adsorption for water treatment and purification; biofuel production, global and multi-objective process optimization; applied thermodynamics
Interests: adsorption for water treatment; materials science
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Adsorption is a crucial separation process in chemical engineering and is widely applied in diverse fields, such as environmental remediation, the industrial purification of value-added chemicals, carbon dioxide capture, water treatment, catalysis, and energy storage. The sustainability and efficacy of this technology rely on diverse parameters such as process operating conditions (e.g., temperature, pressure, and pH), adsorbate chemistry, physicochemical adsorbent properties, and process configuration. The research on and application of process systems engineering in adsorption play a fundamental role in ensuring its cost-effectiveness and environmental sustainability. Adsorption is a consolidated technology in which a wide spectrum of adsorbents (activated carbons, zeolites, molecular sieves, nanomaterials, metallic organic frameworks, and other advanced materials) can be synthetized and tailored for specific applications. However, the current challenges facing our society such as resource limitations, environmental production, energy production, and climate change demand the implementation of versatile and improved adsorption processes.
Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on, but is not limited to, theoretical and experimental advancements and developments related to the process systems engineering of adsorption as follows: the synthesis, characterization, and functionalization of novel multifunctional adsorbents computer-aided design of adsorbent preparation routes; the modeling of batch and continuous multicomponent adsorption systems; the control and optimization of adsorption processes; the design of intensified adsorption processes; computational tools for adsorption process engineering; the industrial design and scale-up of adsorption-based separations; artificial intelligence-based adsorption applications; life cycle analysis; circular-based production and supply chains of traditional and novel adsorbents; and case studies on the applications of emerging adsorbents in environmental depollution processes, industrial separations, energy storage, carbon dioxide capture, and the recovery of value-added products. The authors are invited to submit original research papers, reviews, and short communications.
Prof. Dr. Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet
Prof. Dr. Didilia Ileana Mendoza-Castillo
Prof. Dr. Hilda Elizabeth Reynel-Ávila
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adsorbents
- depollution
- energy storage
- environmental remediation
- intensification
- modeling
- adsorption engineering
- process systems engineering
- sustainable separation
- value-added products
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