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This book covers the remarkable progress in the field of electrospun nanofibrous materials synthesis that has been made in recent years for clean water production. The goal is to offer comprehensive and substantial contents in each chapter, entailing the electrospinning principle, novel materials and methods, properties, characterization, and applications, such as adsorption, catalysis, and membranes. The book is instrumental in terms of showing the scale-up production of desired fibers that ensure the control of the structure–properties relationship for developing effective water treatment technologies. Every chapter ends with a special section for highlighting research challenges and breakthroughs, so that scientists can explore these opportunities and discover new directions for future developments. Material scientists, nanotechnologists, chemists, engineers, water specialists, and environmentalists will be inspired by the information on electrospun nanofibrous materials tobe found in the book. The wide variety of new ideas and recommended future reading will encourage early-career scientists working in this field to design new experiments and practices. The book is useful for college and university-level students enrolled in project courses in materials science and related fields.

À la fois traité de génie des procédés et manuel pratique, cet ouvrage présente les notions fondamentales, les applications et des résultats de travaux de recherche de l'auteur sur les opérations de séparation équilibrées faisant intervenir un solide. Les opérations décrites concernent l'extraction solide-liquide, l'absorption des gaz et des solutions, l'échange d'ions, la cristallisation par refroidissement d'une solution, le séchage et la déshydratation. Cet ouvrage est composé de deux parties. La partie théorique détaille les cinq opérations de séparation étudiées. Chaque chapitre est organisé de la même façon et traite les notions théoriques et les techniques et appareillages permettant de faire la séparation. La seconde partie comporte deux chapitres dédiés à la résolution détaillée de 22 exercices sur l'extraction des solides et la purification des solutions et 17 exercices sur le traitement des solides. Le chapitre 8 traite de l'extraction solide-liquide de la protopine de la fumeterre et des sucres réducteurs de l'aubier de tilleul. Le chapitre 9 se rapporte à la valorisation des produits végétaux pour l'adsorption des métaux lourds par la sciure de pin sylvestre, des phtalates ou des composés colorés par le charbon actif et la purification de la bétaïne des vinasses de betteraves sur résine échangeuse d'ions. Le dernier chapitre se réfère à la cristallisation de la glycine synthétique et sa recristallisation améliorant à la fois la pureté et la granulométrie des cristaux. Ce livre de 600 pages comporte 226 figures, 120 tableaux, 9 annexes et des index produits et sujets. Il constitue un support indispensable pour les étudiants et enseignants en génie des procédés et génie chimique des sections STS, IUT, masters professionnels et des écoles d'ingénieurs. Il sera également utile aux ingénieurs et techniciens souhaitant disposer de connaissances actualisées dans les domaines de la production et du R&D dans les diverses industries chimiques et parachimiques.

This book reviews the development, characterization and applications of aptamers in different areas of biotechnology ranging from therapeutics to diagnostics and protein purification. Hailed as chemical antibodies, these single-stranded nucleic acid receptors were predicted to supersede antibodies in traditional assays, such as ELISA, within a short time. While this has yet to happen, readers will find in this book a deep insight into the progress of aptamer technology and a critical discussion about the limitations that need to be overcome in order to find wider acceptance and use outside of the still relatively small aptamer-community. This book covers all aspects of aptamer generation and application for the aptamer-experienced reader and curious novice alike, with the addition of an industry perspective on the future of aptamer-use in biotechnology.

The present work focuses on the development of intensified small-scale extraction units for spent nuclear fuel reprocessing using advanced process engineering with combined experimental and modelling methodologies. It discusses a number of novel elements, such as the intensification of spent fuel reprocessing and the use of ionic liquids as green alternatives to organic solvents. The use of ionic liquids in two-phase liquid-liquid separation is new to the Multiphase Flow community, and has proved to be challenging, especially in small channels, because of the surface and interfacial properties involved, which are very different to those of common organic solvents. Numerical studies have been also performed to couple the hydrodynamics at small scale with the mass transfer. The numerical results, taken together with scale-up studies, are used to evaluate the applicability of the small-scale units in reprocessing large volumes of nuclear waste.

Distillation basedon Mass Transfer Processes, starting from the basic equation of ternary distillation published by Hausen in 1932 and exploiting the properties of this equation covering all modes of distillation. The material is intended as a graduate textbook for an advanced course on distillation but will also help the practicing engineer to better understand the complex interrelationships of multi-component distillation.

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