APPLICATIONS OF SORPTION PROCESSES

Your objectives in studying this section are to be able to  

Enumerate the most common materials used for adsorption, for ion exchange, and for chromatography. 

Define monoclonal antibodies, affinity adsorption, steric structure, and volatile organic compounds. 

Use experimental breakthrough data to estimate the volumetric overall mass-transfer coefficient for fixed-bed adsorption. 

Calculate volumetric overall mass-transfer coefficients in fixed-bed adsorption from correlations for the individual coefficients, and use them for breakthrough predictions. 

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An important requirement in the application of sorption processes in flow-through units where sludge is suspended or attached to a porous bed is a constant exchange capacity. The maximal aging time of AAH precipitates in the experiments was 48 h and during this time the exchange capacity of the AAH remained unchanged. 

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