Separation of Molecules, Macromolecules and Particles

Kamalesh K. Sirkar is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Foundation Professor of Membrane Separations at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research areas are membranes and novel membrane-based processes. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering. Professor Sirkar has received multiple awards, including the 2009 NJIT Overseer's Excellence-in-Research Medal and has authored or co-authored 160 refereed journal articles, 19 book chapters and 27 US Patents. His co-edited book, Membrane Handbook, won the Professional Scholarly Publishing Award for the Most Outstanding Engineering Work in 1992.

'The first comprehensive book that takes the fundamentals of separation on a molecular level as the starting point! The benefit of this approach is that it gives you a thorough insight in the mechanisms of separation, regardless of which separation is considered. This makes it remarkably easy to understand any separation process, and not only the classical ones. This textbook finally brings the walls down that divide separation processes in classical and non-classical.' Bart Van der Bruggen, University of Leuven, Belgium

• Introduction; 1. Description of separation in a closed system; 2. Description of separation in open separators; 3. Physicochemical basis for separation; 4. Separation in a closed vessel; 5. Effect of chemical reaction on separation; 6. Open separators: bulk flow parallel to force and continuous stirred tank separators; 7. Separation in bulk flow of feed-containing phase perpendicular to the direction of the force; 8. Bulk flow of two phases/regions perpendicular to the direction(s) of the force(s); 9. Cascades; 10. Energy required for separation; 11. Common separation sequences.