High Pressure Process Technology: Fundamentals and Applications

✍ Scribed by A. Bertucco and G. Vetter (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 684
• Series: Industrial Chemistry Library 9
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Preface
Pages v-vii
Alberto Bertucco, Gerhard Vetter

Contents
Pages ix-xx

List of contributors
Pages xxi-xxiii

Chapter 1 Introduction
Pages 1-15
G. Vetter

Chapter 2 Thermodynamic properties at high pressure Original Research Article
Pages 17-63
I. Kikic, T.W. De Loos

Chapter 3 Kinetic properties at high pressure Original Research Article
Pages 65-140
G. Luft, F. Recasens, E. Velo

Chapter 4 Design and construction of high-pressure equipment for research and production Original Research Article
Pages 141-242
G. Vetter, G. Luft, S. Maier

Chapter 5 Industrial reaction units Original Research Article
Pages 243-350
G. Luft, A. Laurent, F. Recasens, F. Trabelsi, G. Weickert

Chapter 6 Separation operations and equipment Original Research Article
Pages 351-403
A. Laurent, E. Lack, T. Gamse, R. Marr

Chapter 7 Safety and control in high pressure plant design and operation Original Research Article
Pages 405-435
G. Luft, S. Maier, G. Luft, E. Lack, H. Seidlitz

Chapter 8 Economics of high pressure processes Original Research Article
Pages 437-471
E. Lack, H. Seidlitz, G. Luft, A. Bertucco, A. Striolo, F. Zanette

Chapter 9 Applications: 9.1 Chemical reactions in supercritical solvents (SCFs) Original Research Article
Pages 473-485
M. Poliakoff, N. Meehan

9.2. Enzymatic reactions Original Research Article
Pages 486-495
. Knez, T. Gamse, R. Marr

9.3 Hydrogenation under supercritical single-phase conditions Original Research Article
Pages 496-508
M. Härröd, M.-B. Macher, S. van den Hark, P. Møller

9.4 Supercritical water oxidation (SCWO). Application to industrial wastewater treatment Original Research Article
Pages 509-526
M.J. Cocero

9.5 High-pressure polymerization with metallocene catalysts Original Research Article
Pages 527-536
G. Luft

9.6 Supercritical fluid extraction and fractionation from solid materials Original Research Article
Pages 537-575
E. Lack, B. Simándi

9.7 High pressure polymer processing Original Research Article
Pages 576-586
L. Kleintjens

9.8 Precipitation of solids with dense gases Original Research Article
Pages 587-611
ſ. Knez, E. Weidner

9.9 Pharmaceutical processing with supercritical fluids Original Research Article
Pages 612-625
N. Elvassore, I. Kikic

9.10 Treating micro-organisms with high pressure Original Research Article
Pages 626-640
A. Bertucco, S. Spilimbergo

9.11 Dry-cleaning with liquid carbon dioxide Original Research Article
Pages 641-649
Paolo Pallado

Subject index
Pages 651-659

✦ Subjects

Химия и химическая промышленность;Процессы и аппараты химической технологии;