Sonoorganic synthesis engineering

A number of books and reviews covering mostly the chemical aspects of sonochemistry have appeared over the years, for example, Suslick, 1988, 1989, 1990a,b Ley and Low, 1989 Mason, 1986, 1990a,b, 1991 Mason and Lorimer, 1989 Price, 1992 Bremner, 1994 Low, 1995 Luche, 1998. A recent review by Thompson and Doraiswamy (1999) covers both the chemical and engineering aspects of sonochemistry and another by Keil and Swamy (1999) examines the present state of our understanding of sonoreactor design. 

Sonochemical enhancement of reaction rates is caused by a phenomenon called cavitation. Therefore, we largely confine the treatment in this chapter to the chemical and reaction engineering (scale-up) aspects of cavitation and its associated effects (see Shah et al., 1999, for a detailed treatment). An alternative means of achieving the same result is by mimicking the ultrasonic effect by inducing hydrodynamic cavitation. Because of the practical importance of this technique, we conclude the chapter by outlining its main features. 

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