Separation of gases : the proceedings of the Fifth BOC Priestley Conference, sponsored by BOC Limited and organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry in conjunction with the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 19th -21st September 1989
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Separation of gases : the proceedings of the Fifth BOC Priestley Conference, sponsored by BOC Limited and organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry in conjunction with the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 19th -21st September 1989
（Special publication / Royal Society of Chemistry, no. 80）
Royal Society of Chemistry, c1990
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This fifth BOC Priestley conference held at the University of Birmingham followed a similar pattern to previous conferences in the series. The programme embraced many of the diverse scientific and religious interests of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) who discovered oxygen and investigated the properties of a number of gases, in addition to his occupation as a preacher and minister of the Unitarian church. The scientific component of the programme for the fifth BOC Priestley conference was devoted to the separation of gases, a topic which currently offers a challenge to the intellect and skills of scientists, engineers and industrialists. The economics and eventual commercial success of many process operations depends crucially on the ease with which products of reaction can be separated in specific plant located downstream from the chemical reactor. Whilst distillation and absorption remain well established, and, in many circumstances, convenient and appropriate methods of separation, other methods of separation have begun to take precedence where it is perceived that an economic advantage accrues.
Most of these more recently developed techniques for large-scale gas separation were included as part of the conference scientific programme, which included invited lectures on separation by membranes, adsorption, high gravity separations and chemical methods of separation. Both fundamental scientific aspects of gas separation and the challenging intellectual aspects of process design were included in the programme.
Table of Contents
- Gas separation fundamentals, G.G.Haselden
- gas separation by distillation, M.J.Lockett
- advances in cryogenic air separation, T.D.Atkinson and T.Rathbone
- gas separation by distillation, K.E.Porter
- membrane structure and gas separation, V.T.Stannett and R.T.Chern
- the perselectivity of polyorganosiloxanes containing specific functionalities, A.J.Ashworth et al
- the ultra-high purity challenge, W.H.Whitlock
- the industrial practice of adsorption, G.K.Pearce
- the origins of photoelectrochemistry, M.D.Archer
- Birmingham and the beginnings of industrial metallurgy, G.F.Williams
- oxygen and the tin can, M.Clarke
- electrochemical corrosion and boiler explosions in the 19th century, C.A.Smith
- a scientist's view of religion, Reverend Dr.John Polkinghorne
- upgrading of landfill gas by membranes - process design and costs, comparison with alternatives, R.Rautenbach and H.E.Ehresmann
- adsorbent materials - their structure, properties and characterization, L.V.C.Rees
- dynamic modelling of pressure swing adsorption separation processes, D.M.Ruthven
- the bed dynamics of pressure swing adsorption, C.N.Kenney
- isotope separation in the nuclear power industry, C.Whitehead
- process intensification - a rotary seawater deaerator, V.Balasundaram
- the role of absorption in gas separation, Q.M.Siddique
- gas separations through reactions, M.M.Sharma and A.Mehra
- the removal of sulphur dioxide from flue gases, W.S.Kyte.
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