AIChESeparations Technology
Topical Conference
2001 AIChE Annual MeetingNovember 4 -9,2001
Reno, NV
Topical Conference ChairPaul Bryan
MIT Practice School
Proceedings CoordinatorAtanas Serbezov
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
VflllllTIP 2 UB/TIB Hannover 89114 088 772
Process Improvements with Innovative {Technologies in the Starch and Sugar Industries 580 IDr. Florence Lutin and Mr. Mathieu Bailly j
Process Design Targeted Around Electromembrane Operationsfor the Recovery of Organic Acids from Fermentation Broth 585Helene Roux-de Balmann, Mathieu Bailly, Florence Lutin andMunir Cheryan
Quality and Yield Improvements for Valuable Whey Productswith Innovative Membrane Processes for Whey Demineralization 590Mr. Denis Largeteau and Mr. Daniel Bar
Staging of Affinity Ultrafiltration Processes for Chiral Separations 596Jonathan Romero and Andrew Zydney
Pore Size Distribution Choice Effect in Modeling Membrane Sieving 6045. Derjani-Bayeh and V. G.J. Rodgers
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Thermodynamic Equation of State for Adsorption in Porous Materials 611Alan L. Myers
Measurement of Diffusion in Zeolites - A Never Ending Challenge? 617JorgKArger
Developments in Frequency Response Methods forMeasuring Mass Transfer Rates in Adsorbents 623Brian K. Sward andM. Douglas Le Van
Rate Equations from the Film Model Approximationin Adsorption and Ion Exchange 629Giorgio Carta
Thermal-Adsorptive Concentration 635Gopalan Natarajan and Phillip C. Wankat
Influence of the Presence of CO2 on an Indirect HeatingTSA Process for Volatile Compounds Removal from Air 641F.Meunier,]. BonjourandM. Clausse
Preparation, Characterization and Applicationsof Carbon Whisker Membranes 647Motoyuki Suzuki, Tuan-Yao Li, Sang-Dae Bae, Takeshi Nomura andAkiyoshi Sakoda
Landfill Gas: Rubbish to Resource / A Re-Examination 653Kent S. Knaebel and Herbert E. Reinhold
New Methods for Characterization of Micro-Mesoporous Adsorbents 659Peter I. Ravikovitch and Alexander V. Neimark
Determination of Absolute Adsorption Isothermsby Combined Calorimetric and Dielectric Measurements 665/ . U. Keller, TV. Zimmermann, A. Schein and R. Staudt
Surface Characterization of Particles byAdsorption and Adhesion Measurements 670Wolfgang Peukert, Carsten Mehler and Martin Gotzinger
Purification of Semiconductor Inert and Specialty Gases 676Pavol Pranda, Vladimir Hlavacek and Mary Louise Markowski
Comparison of Adsorption Equilibrium and Kineticsof Seven Pure Gases in a Carbon Molecular Sieve 678Toun-Sang Bae, Kwon-Il Kim and Chang-Ha Lee
SMB Units Using a Low Number of Chromatographic Columns 683Luis S. Pais andAUrio E. Rodrigues
Sodium, Calcium, Ammonium and Hydrogen Forms of Zeolitefor the Adsorption of Glucose and Fructose from Aqueous Solutions 689MisketHeper, Lemi Tiirker and N. Suzan Kincal
An Investigation of Non-Ideal Effects in Protein Ion-Exchange Equilibria 695Marvin E. Thrash Jr. and Neville G. Pinto
Experiments and Modeling in the Separation of Sterols Using Zeolites 699JohnM. Dzenitis, Mikhail Tu. Berezin and Sa V. Ho
Comparative Investigation of Ion ExchangeBehavior of Three Homologous Proteins 702John R. Corte and Alfred Carlson
Adsorption Equilibria of Hydrocarbons Using the Headspace Technique 708ExpeditoJ. Parentejr., Luiz O. M. Muniz, Hugo L. B. Buarque and Celio L. Cavalcante Jr.
Measuring and Describing Adsorption under Supercritical Conditions 714T. Hocker, A. Rajendran, M. Mazzotti and M. Morbidelli
Pure and Mixed Gas Adsorption Equilibriaon Porous Solids at High Pressures 7215. Beutekamp, A. Herbst, P. Harting and R. Saudt
Frequency Response Study of Oxygen and NitrogenMolecular Mobility in Carbon Molecular Sieves 727Dongmin Shen, Martin Billow and Norberto Lemcoff
PFG-NMR Studies of Pure and BinaryGas Diffusion within Zeolitic Adsorbents 733Frank Rittig, Charles G. Coe and John M. Zielinski
A New LDF Approximation for Cyclic Adsorption Processes 739AnnaJ. Rouse and Stefano Brandani
Characterization of Membrane and Adsorption GasSeparation Using Organic Templating Ceramic Membrane 744Jong-ho Moon, Sang-hoon Hyun and Chang-Ha Lee
Adsorption of Aromatics on MSC in SupercriticalCO2 Fluid, a Chromatographic Study 749Kazuyuki Chihara, Tusuke Lnoue and Kotaro Sumitomo
Non-Equilibrium, Nonisothermal Adsorption Dynamics and itsRole in the Modeling of PSA-Solvent Vapor Recovery Processes 754ShaheenA. Al-Muhtaseb, Karen D. Daniel, James A. Mclntyre and James A. Ritter
Influence of Si/Al Ratio on the Adsorption Propertiesfor Linear and Branched Hydrocarbons of MFI Materials 760Kurt De Meyer, RefikA. Ocakoglu, Joeri F. Denayer and Gino V. Baron
Dual Resistance Model for the Transportof Gases in Carbon Molecular Sieve 764Huang Qinglin, S. M. Sundaram and S. Farooq
Adsorption-Desorption Isotherms of CarbonDioxide (CO2) on Selected Argonne Premium Coals 771Ekrem Ozdemir, Karl Schroeder and Badie I. Morsi
Separation of Enantionmers throughSolvent Gradient SMB Chromatography 779S. Abel, G. Erdem, G. Zenoni, M. Mazzotti andM. Morbidelli
Adsorptive Separation of Galacto-Oligosaccharides:Cation Exchange Resins as Adsorbent 786Johan A. Vente, Hans Bosch, Andre B. de Haan and PaulJ. T. Bussmann
Acid-Base Interaction between C8 Aromatics and T Zeolites 792Rattiya Suntornpun, Varoon Varanyanond,Pramoch Rangsunvigit and Pomthomg Malakul
Impedance Spectroscopic Measurements of Local Breakthrough Curves 794R. Staudt, M. Ohm, M. Lb'hr andj. U. Keller
Process Integration Using Expanded BedAdsorption for Protein Recovery from Escherichia coliCell Lysate: Process Performance and Economic Analysis 800J.-F. P. Hamel andN. Shah
Adsorption of Oxygenates from Used Lubricant Oil:Evaluation of Microemulsion Impregnated Clays 803A. CristinaM Silva, TerezaN. C. Dantas,M.Adelina S. Araujo and Celio L. Cavalcante Jr.
Adsorption of Chromium (III) and (VI)on Chitosan Based Bio-Inorganic Material 809Shameem Hasan, TusharK Ghosh, DabirS. Viswanath, Veera M. Boddu and Ed D. Smith
A Review of the Use of ION Exchange Technologyfor the International Nuclear Industry 815Dr. Supriya K Sen Gupta
Development of Simple and Complex Modelsfor the Design of H2 Storage Systems 821SarangA. Gadre, Karen D. Daniel, Armin D. Ebner,ShaheenA. Al-Muhtaseb and James A. Ritter
Simulation and Optimization of PSA for CO2 Sequestration 827Daeho Ko, Ranjani V. Siriwardane and Lorenz T. Biegler
Modelling a Dual Piston Pressure Swing Adsorption System 833AnnaJ. Rouse and Stefano Brandani
Equilibrium Theory Analysis of a Rectifying PressureSwing Adsorption Process for Producing Pure Heavy Component 839ArminD. Ebner and James A. Ritter
The Effect of Isotherm Shape on the Expected Performance of a PSAColumn: COJ/NJ Separation with Na Y and HiSiv3000 Adsorbents 845Peter J. E. Harlick and F. Handan Tezel
Diffusion of Oxygen and Nitrogen in CMS Micropores at HighCoverage and its Impact on Kinetically Controlled PSA Separation 8515. Farooq, Huang Qinglin and S. M. Sundaram
Novel Supported Metal Oxide Sorbent for H2SRemoval in IGCC Based Power Plant 858Puneet Gupta, Raja A. Jadhav and Liang-Shih Fan
Reactivity of AHI-5 Sorbent with Hot HydrogenSulfide in the Presence of Moisture and Hydrogen 865K C. Kwon, G. L. Tibere and R. El-Amin-Foster
Mechanism of CO2 Sorption /Desorption on Lithium Zirconate 873Jun-ichi Ida and Jerry T. S. Lin
Metal Oxide Based Nanocomposites for SO2 Adsorption 879Jason T. Sweeney and Jackie T. Ting
Zeolite Based Hydrocarbon TrapMaterials for Environmental Applications 880Masao Nakano, Chuck Matthews, Hiroshi Ogawa and Keiji Itabashi
Comparison of Sorbents for Mercury Removal from Flue Gas 886EvanJ. Granite and Henry W. Pennline
Molecular Gate Effect in the Titanosilicate Strontium-ETS-4 890Sankar Nair, Michael Tsapatsis and Steven M. Kuznicki
Granules with Positive Surface Charges for Humic Acid Removal 896Renbi Bat, X. Zhang and Chi Tien
Hydroprocessing in Catalytic Abatement of Water Pollutans 902Moshe Sheintuch, Turii Matatov-Meytal and Tury Shindkr
Reactive Distillation Process Design and Scale-Up 906P. Moritz, S. Blagov and H. Hasse
Decision Support Tools for the Design of MultiphaseReaction and Reactive Separation Systems 914Patrick Linke andAntonis Kokossis
Recovery of Glycols from Aqueous Solution via Reactive Distillation 920Shubham P. Chopade, Atul D. Dhole, Angela M. Clark,Chris W. Kiesling, James E. Jackson and Dennis J. Miller
Reactive Extraction of Toluene OxidationProducts with Aqueous Salt Solutions 926Boris Kuzmanovic, NorbertJ. M. Kuipers, Andre B. de Haan and Gerard Kwant
Sorption-Enhanced Reaction Process with Reactive Regeneration 932Guo-hua Xiu, Ping Li andAlirio E. Rodrigues
Subcritical Water Extraction of Polycyclic AromaticHydrocarbons from Soil Combined with Oxidation 938Ali A. Dadkhah and Aydin Akgerman
Synthesis and Characterization of OrderedSilica with Large Cage-Like Mesopores 944Jivaldo R. Matos, Michal Kruk, Lucildes P. Mercuri, and Mietek Jaroniec
A Sans Study of Nitrogen Adsorption in the Mesoporous SilicaGlass Gelsil®50 and the Reconstruction of the Porous Structure 951N. Eschricht, E. Hoinkis, F. Madler and B. Rbhl-Kuhn
Mimetic Synthesis and Characterization of TemplatedMesoporous Materials Using Molecular Simulation 963FlorR. Siperstein and Keith E. Gubbins
Density Functional Theory of Adsorption in Spherical Pores andCharacterization of Cubic and 3D Hexagonal Regular Nonomaterials 973Peter I. Ravikovitch and Alexander V. Neimark
Characterization of Porous Solids: Sorption and PoreCondensation Behavior of Nitrogen, Argon, and Krypton inOrdered and Disordered Mesoporous Silica Materials (MCM-41,MCM-48, SBA-15, Controlled Pore Glass, Silica Gel) atTemperatures Above and Below the Bulk Triple Point 979Matthias Thommes, RalfKohn and Michael Froba
An Extension of the Corrugated Pore Structure Model to SimulateComposite Nitrogen Adsorption Isotherms of Porous MaterialsExhibiting Two Discrete Random Pore Structure Regions 990G. P. Androutsopoulos and C. E. Salmas
Gas Adsorption in As-Prepared and PurifiedSingle-Walled Carbon Nanotubes 1000A. Patel, G. K Newman and L. Lee
Characterization of the Solvent Stability ofPolymeric Nanofiltration Membranes 1011Burt Van der Bruggen, Jeroen Geens and Carlo Vandecasteele
Synthesis and Characterization of Mechanically Alloyed RaneyNickel Catalysts and Sulfated ZrO2-SiO2 SOL-GEL Catalytic Supports 1020F. Rojas, I. Kornhauser, J. M. Esparza, C. Felipe andj. Salmones
Photosensitive Semiconductor - Metal Nanocomposites:Preparation, Surface Characterization and Electrochemical Studies 1030Vaidyanathan Subramanian, Prashant V. Kamat, P. Takhistov andEduardo E. Wolf
Inorganic and Organic Separation UsingFunctionalized Nanoporous Materials 1041Louis Mercier
Synthesis of Hierarchically Structured Nanoporous Materialswith a Controlled Bimodal Pore Size Distribution 1046Marc-Olivier Coppens andjihong Sun
Single Reagent Synthesis of Defect-Free, HydrophobicMolecular Sieves from Borosilicate Precursors 1053Christopher W.Jones, Son-Jong Hwang, Tatsuya Okubo and Mark E. Davis
Correlation of Crystal Growth Behavior ofZeolites with Aluminosilicate Precursors 1056Toru Wakihara and Tatsuya Okubo
Macroscale Morphology Control ofMesoporous Alumina Molecular Sieves 1062Michael W. Toepke, Weihua Deng and Brent H. Shanks
Synthesis of Thermally Stable NanoporousVanadium Phosphorus Oxide Phases 1069M. A. Carreon and V. V. Guliants
Imprinting of the Surface of Mesoporous Silicates UsingOrganic Structure Directing Agents:Catalysts for Large Organic Molecules 1075Kaveri R. Sawant and Raul F. Lobo
Organogels as Tool to Generate Anion:Cation Selective Membranes 1078Uwe Beginn, Sandra Weinmann and Martin Mb'ller
Hydrothermal Synthesis of Molecular Sieve Fibers: UsingMicroemulsions to Control Crystal Morphology 1088Matthew Tates, ToddDipre, Kevin Ott, EvaBirnbaum and T. Mark McCleskey
Infrared Study of Novel Vapor-Phase Silylation for MCM-41 1093Robert Rex Sever, Rafael Alcala and Thatcher W. Root
Perovskite Oxides in High Temperature Oxygen Sorption:Equilibrium Properties and Heat of Sorption 1104Zhaohui Tang andj. T. S. Lin
On the Development of Novel AdsorbentMaterials for Hydrogen Storage Systems 1110Robert A. Riggleman, Armin D. Ebner, James A. Ritter and Ragaiy Zidan
Nanoporous Metallo-Organic Polymerfor Gas Separation and Purification 1116QingMin Wang, Dongmin Shen, Martin Bulow, Miu Ling Lau,Shuguang Deng, Frank Fitch, Norberto Lemcoffand Jessica Semanscin
Pyrazole Functionalized Sol-GelAdsorbent for Noble Metal Separations 1121Jun S. Lee and Lawrence L. Tavlarides
Molecular Simulation for Adsorption of Halocarbons in Zeolites 1127Kazuyuki Chihara, Shingo Miyamoto, Ryuichi Kamiyama, Hirotaka Mangyou,Masaki Omote, Caroline F. Mellot-Draznieks and Anthony K Cheetham
Adsorption of Ozone and Organics form AqueousSolution onto Novel Siliceous Adsorbents 1133Hirotaka Fujita, Akiyoshi Sakoda, Motoyuki Suzuki and Jun Izumi
Desorption of Heavy Oil from Activated CarbonFiber by Supercritical Propane or CO2 1136Kazuyuki Chihara, Takuji Toshida, Kotaro Sumitomo,Minoru Takubo and Toshinaga Kawai
PSA for Solvent Recovery; an Experimental and a Simulation Study 1141Kazuyuki Chihara, Shingo Hamashima and Takeharu Tsutsui
Recent Advances in Carbon Dioxide Capture and SeparationTechniques at the National Energy Technology Laboratory 1147H. W. Pennline,J. S. Hoffman, M. L. Gray, R. V. Siriwardane andE.J. Granite
Adsorption of Pentachlorophenol on Granular Activated Carbon 1153H.A. Trigoyen-Gonzdlez, and Rene Reyes-Mazzoco
Immobilization of Radioactive and Hazardous Contaminants throughUse of Imbiber Beads, Bitumen, and Modified Cement Stabilizers 1159Dr. Supriya K Sen Gupta
Online Monitoring of the Troger Base's InternalConcentration Profiles during the SMB Process 1165Kathleen Mihlbachler, Andreas Jupke, Andreas Seidel-Morgenstem,Henner Schmidt-Traub and Georges Guiochon
Past and Present Trends for Radioactive Separationsin Aqueous and Non-Aqueous Nuclear Waste 1172Dr. Supriya K Sen Gupta
Adsorption of Butane on Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes 1178Jenny Hilding, Eric A. Grulke, Susan B. Sinnott,Dali Qian, Rodney Andrews and Marit Jagtoyen
Separation of CO2 from Flue Gas by HighReactivity Calcium Based Sorbents 1184Himanshu Gupta andL.-S. Fan
A Distribution Kinetics Model forChromatography of Blocklike Molecules 1191Motonobu Goto and Benjamin J. McCoy
Equilibrium Theory Analysis of the Approach to thePeriodic State in a Pressure Swing Adsorption CycleUtilizing an Unfavorable Langmuir Isotherm 1197Karen D. Daniel and James A. Ritter
Adsorptive Separations: An Overview 1203K Kumar
Measurement of Adsorption Equilibria and Adsorption Rates 1209M. Douglas Le Van
Adsorption Process Modeling: State of the Art 1212James A. Ritter and Shaheen A. Al-Muhtaseb
Adsorber Design and Equipment 1218Kent S. Knaebel
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Improving the Filteration of Sludge/MonosodiumTitanate Slurries by the Addition of Flocculants 1227M. R. Poirier, S. W. Rosencrance, H. H. Saito andj. L. Siler
A Novel Device for Classification of Suspensionswith Cut Sizes in the Range below 10 Microns 1233Joachim Werther and Jens Schmidt
Industrial Examples to Improve Cracking Filter Cake Filtration 1239Dr. Guenter Stroh and Dr. Herbert Riemenschneider
Microfiltration with a Screen-Hollow Fiber Composite Module 1241Renbi Bai, Chi Tien and H. L. Leow
Bio-Separations Using Surfactant Aided gel Filtration Equipment 1248D. A. Horneman, M. Ottens, J. T. F. Keurentjes and L. A. M. van der Widen
Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds from Water UsingCombined Vacuum and Sweeping-Gas Membranes Distillation 1252Tzahi T. Cath, Amy E. Childress and V. Dean Adams
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Optimization and CSS Convergence Acceleration ofPressure Swing Adsorption Systems for Air Separataion 1261Ling Jiang, Lorenz T. Biegler and V. Grant Fox
A Study of Methyl Acetate Hydrolysis via ReactiveDistillation at Elevated Temperature and Pressure 1268Craig A. Hoyme, PaulR. Bienkowski amd Jeffrey J. Siirola
Calculating Sharp Kinetic Bounds on Attainable Reactor-SeparatorYields via the CFSTR Equivalence Principle 1274Martin Feinberg and Phillipp Ellison
Linear Programming Models for Attainable Region Analysis 1275William C. Rooney, Shehzaad Kauchali and Lorenz T. Biegler
Case-Based Reasoning System for Selection ofColumn Internal in Reactive Distillaiton 1276Turi Avramenko andAndrzejKraslawski
Geometric Insights into the Limiting OperatingConditions for Reactive Separation 1283Warren R. Hqffmaster and SteinarHauan
Feasibility of Batch Reactive Distillation 1288/ . W. Lee,J. Oldenburg, S. Bruggemann and W. Marquardt
Other PapersSession 141
Nanoparticle Formation through Precipitation 1305H.-C. Schwarzer and W. Peukert
Ripening Mechanisms in Binary Polymer Blends 1311Mary Hongying Cheng and E. B. Nauman
Variation of Nudeation Kinetics of a ModelProtein System with Ionic Strength 1317Venkateswarlu Bhamidi, Sasidhar Varanasi and Constance A. Schall
High to Low Purity O2 PSA Using Zeolite 5A and CMS Beds 1319Jeong-Geunjee, Hae-Jun Park, Seok-Hwan Chu, Tae-Hoon Kwon,Heung-Man Moon and Chang-Ha Lee
