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Polymeric Adsorbents

Characterization, Properties, Applications, and Modelling

  • 1st Edition - September 8, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ahad Ghaemi, Reza Norouzbeigi, Hadiseh Masoumi
  • Language: English

Polymeric Adsorbents: Characterization, Properties, Applications, and Modelling offers comprehensive information on the various types of polymeric adsorbents and uses, enabling… Read more

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Description

Polymeric Adsorbents: Characterization, Properties, Applications, and Modelling offers comprehensive information on the various types of polymeric adsorbents and uses, enabling the reader to understand, identify and prepare adsorbents with the required structure and properties for a range of key industrial applications. The book presents the various types of polymeric adsorbents and their characteristics, focuses on physicochemical properties, synthesis methods, functionalization, and composites and hybrid materials, and highlights key application areas, including gas adsorption, heavy metal removal, hazardous dye removal, and adsorption of antibiotics. Finally, the book provides detailed guidance on modeling of polymeric adsorbent behavior and molecular dynamic (MD) simulation.

This is a valuable resource to researchers and advanced students across polymer science, chemistry, materials science, engineering, environmental science, and engineers, scientists, and R&D professionals with an interest in polymeric adsorbents for industrial applications.

Key features

  • Covers a full range of polymeric adsorbent types, as well as composites and hybrid adsorbents
  • Explains chemistry, characterization, functionalization and methods for improving properties
  • Explores a range of applications supported by detailed coverage of simulation and modeling

Readership

Researchers and advanced students across polymer science, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and environmental science, Engineers, scientists, and R&D professionals across a range of industries (polymer, chemical, environmental, gas/petrochemical, automotive, pharmaceutical, construction, agriculture, etc.)

Table of contents

1. Types of polymeric adsorbents

2. Physicochemical properties of polymeric adsorbents

3. Synthesis methods of polymeric adsorbents

4. Functionalization and improvements of polymeric adsorbents

5. Composite and hybrid polymeric adsorbents

6. Polymeric adsorbents for gas adsorption

7. Polymeric adsorbents for heavy metal removal

8. Removal of hazardous dyes

9. Adsorption of antibiotics

10. Modeling of polymeric adsorbent behavior

11. Molecular dynamic (MD) modelling of polymeric adsorbents

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 14, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

AG

Ahad Ghaemi

Ahad Ghaemi is a Professor in the School of Chemical, Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology. His research interests include process design, modeling and simulation, gas and petroleum industries, computational fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, separation and purification processes, synthesis methods, environmental engineering, nanotechnology, and nano-adsorbents.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Chemical, Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

RN

Reza Norouzbeigi

Dr. Reza Norouzbeigi is an Associate Professor based in the Nanomaterials and Surface Technology Research Laboratory, within the School of Chemical, Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology in 2011. Dr. Norouzbeigi’s research interests include adsorption, synthesis and characterization of nanoadsorbents, functionalized adsorbents, oil spill adsorption, ceramic nanocomposites, surface technology and nanocoatings, water/oil separation, and superhydrophobic and self-cleaning surfaces.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor based, Nanomaterials and Surface Technology Research Laboratory, School of Chemical, Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

HM

Hadiseh Masoumi

Ms. Hadiseh Masoumi has been a PhD student since 2019, under the advisement of Dr. Ahad Ghaemi and Prof. Hossein Ghanadzadeh Gilani, at Guilan University, where she also received her BSc and MSc degrees in chemical engineering. Her research focuses on the fundamental science and applications of polymeric adsorbents in the separation of toxic particles from wastewater and polluted air, as well as nanotechnology, drug-delivery, and leaching.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

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