Publisher's Synopsis
A study of fixed bed systems from an engineering viewpoint, this book looks at systems where gases or liquids (or both) pass through a layer of solid particles. These systems are in widespread use in a number of industrial areas including packed distillation, absorption, desorption and stripping columns, catalytic trickle bed reactors, biological wastewater treatment plants, reactors with immobilized enzymes, oil shale retorts, adsorption equipment for separation of mixtures or the removal of noxious gases, preparative chromatographs, metallurgical equipment, hydrogen storage systems, honeycomb reactors, heat recuperators, cooling towers and many others.;The book provides a unified look at these systems, explaining the relationship between structural inhomogeneities of the velocity and pressure fields in fluids passing through the bed, transport phenomena and the progress of chemical reactions. The author's approach to the subject begins with a look at the mathematical models, presents asymptotic solutions and numerical results, and closes with a general discussion of the obtained results.
