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Presentations at the 2007 AIChE Annual Meeting

November 4-9, 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 1

Development of A Universal Solvent Selection Methodology for In-Situ Extraction................... 1

C. van den Berg, P.J.Th. Bussmann, C.P.M. Roelands, L.A.M. Van der Wielen

Estimation of Phospholipid Solubility in Conventional Solvents and Supercritical Fluids.................................................................................................................................................... 2

Rebecca K. Toghiani

Preliminary Investigation of Cellular Lipid Extraction Using Electroporation as an Enhancement Technique ................................................................................................................... 3

Robert G. McComas, Mark Bricka, W. Todd French

Extraction and Identification of Julibroside Saponins from the Bark of albizia Julibrissin ............................................................................................................................................ 4

Abigail S. Engelberth, D. J. Carrier, E.C. Clausen

Sub- and Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Bioactive Compounds from Ganoderma lucidum ................................................................................................................................................ 5

Ruhan Askin, Mitsuru Sasaki, Motonobu Goto

Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction of Capsaicinoids from Poblano Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) Using a Dynamic Method ......................................................................... 17

Octavio Elizalde-Solis, Luis A. Galicia-Luna

Adsorption of Light Gases in Large-Pore Isoreticular Metal Organic Frameworks................... 18Youn-Sang Bae, Andrew Nelson, David Dubbeldam, Houston Frost, Joseph T. Hupp, Randall Q. Snurr

The Role of Open Metal Sites in adsorption of Polar and Nonpolar Molecules in Cu-BTC ............................................................................................................................................... 19

Krista S. Walton, J. Reddy Karra

Analysis of Tracer ZLC Desorption for Single-File Systems........................................................ 20Abduljelil Iliyas, Hassan .M. Zahedi Niaki, Miaden Eic, Sergey Vasenkov

Applicability of Water-Activated Carbon Isotherm Models to Water-Carbon Nanotube Isotherms ......................................................................................................................... 22

Pyoungchung Kim, Yijing Zheng, Sandeep Agnihotri

Carbon-Silica Composite Adsorbent: Characterization and Adsorption of Light Gases.................................................................................................................................................. 32

T. Grant Glover, Kamini I. Dunne, Robert J. Davis, M. Douglas LeVan

Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Gas Adsorption in Cu3(Btc)2..................................... 33Jinchen Liu, Karl Johnson, Jeffery Culp, Sittichai Natesakhawat, Bradley Bockrath, S. G. Sankar, Brian Zande, Giovanni Garberoglio

Length Exclusion in the Adsorption of Chain Molecules on Chabazite Type Zeolites............................................................................................................................................... 34

Inge Daems, Ranjeet Singh, Gino V. Baron, Joeri F.M. Denayer

Membranes for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability ................................................................... 35Keith Murphy

Electrolytes for Low and Intermediate Temperature Fuel Cells: Their Properties and Interplay with Other Components............................................................................................ 36

Thomas Zawodzinski, Hossein Ghassemi

New Membrane Separations in Biotech Processes ...................................................................... 37Willem Kools

Novel Hybrid Distillation-Membrane Analysis Using Thermally Coupled Columns .................. 38Mark Peters, Shehzaad Kauchali, Diane Hildebrandt, David Glasser

Carbon Nanotube Membranes ......................................................................................................... 39Bruce J. Hinds

Improving Efficiency and Operation of Heat and Mass Transfer Equipment ............................. 40Andrei Merenov, Daniel Tirtowidjojo

Revamping Crude Units: Pre-Heating Trains and Pumparound Load Adjustnment ................. 52Miguel J. Bagajewicz, Kitipat Siemanond, Warapon Sripayap

Characteristics of Energy-Saving Distillation through Internal Heat Exchange HIDiC ............. 53Shuzo Ohe

CO2 Capture Process with MEA....................................................................................................... 72Rosa-Hilda Chavez

Evaluation of the Absorption of Sulfur Dioxide in Water Using Three Types of Structured Packing ........................................................................................................................... 80

Rosa-Hilda Chavez

Multiple Steady States in Catalytic Distillation for Deep Hydrodesulfurization of Diesel.................................................................................................................................................. 88

Arnulfo Rosales-Quintero, Felipe D. Vargas-Villamil

Operation of an Industrial SMB Unit for P-Xylene Separation Accounting for Adsorbent Aging Problems ........................................................................................................... 100

Pedro Sá Gomes, Mirjana Minceva, Alirio E. Rodrigues

Separation of Dilute Binary Gases by Simulated-moving Bed with Pressure-swing Assist: the SMB/PSA Process ....................................................................................................... 102

Kyle P. Kostroski, Phillip C. Wankat

Separation of D-Psicose and D-Fructose from the Binary Mixture Using Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography........................................................................................................ 104

Thai Hoang Le, Van Duc Long Nguyen, Il-Yong Kim, Jin-Il Kim, Ju-Weon Lee, Jeung-Kun Kim, Yoon-Mo Koo

Production of Pure Enantiomers by Integrating (Continuous) Chromatography and Racemisation Reactions ......................................................................................................... 105

Malte Kaspereit, Javier García Palacios, Tania Meixus Fernandez, Tuomo Sainio, Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern, Achim Kienle

Optimization of Steady-State Recycling Chromatography Under Reduced Purity Constraints ...................................................................................................................................... 106

Tuomo Sainio, Malte Kaspereit

Two- and Three-Column Compact SMB Processes for Ternary Separation ............................ 107Rui C. R. Rodrigues, João M. M. Araújo, J. P. B. Mota

Standing Wave Design and Simulation of Simulated Moving Beds Based on Monolithic Columns........................................................................................................................ 108

Javier Nieves Remacha, Nien-Hwa Linda Wang

Analysis of Separation of Dilute Binary Gas Mixture by Thermal Swing Adsorption of Honeycomb Rotor Adsorbent ............................................................................... 109

Tsutomu Hirose

Extraction of LCST-Type Hydrogen-Bonding Organics from Aqueous Solution .................... 110Timothy Frank

Extraction-Distillation or Extractive Distillation? ........................................................................ 126Jose Bravo, Don Foulk

Extraction of Methanol and Glycerine from Crude Biodiesel..................................................... 127Donald J. Glatz, Lori Mason

New Approach for Modelling Mechanically Agitated Extraction Columns ............................... 135Frank Seibert, J. Christopher Lewis, Timothy Rochelle

Membrane Composition and Osmosis in Liquid Membrane Permeation ................................. 136Marlene Fritz, Matthäus Siebenhofer, Rolf Marr

Prediction of the Partitioning Coefficients with Cosmo-Rs........................................................ 137Michael Diedenhofen, Andreas Klamt

Fundamental Study of the Adsorption of Chiral Solutes on Polysaccharide Based Chiral Stationary Phases for Chiral Separation Applications .................................................... 138

Rahul B. Kasat, N. H. Linda Wang, Elias I. Franses

Separation of Reboxetine Enantiomers Using Compact Simulated Moving Bed Schemes .......................................................................................................................................... 139

João M. M. Araújo, Rui C. R. Rodrigues, José P. B. Mota

Theory of Electrodeionisation. A Link Between Theories of Ion Exchange Columns and Electrodialysis ......................................................................................................... 140

Georges Grévillot, François Lapicque, Laurence Muhr

An Extended Theory of Adsorption in an Ion Exchange Resin.................................................. 141Ann Marie Hardin, C. F. Ivory

Adsorption of Ethoxylated Nonionic Surfactants on Various Interfaces.................................. 142Abhay Ladhe, Dibakar Bhattacharyya

Mass Transport Model for the Removal of Para-Chlorophenol by Column Adsorption Using Activated Carbon ............................................................................................. 143

Michael Fan Fu Sze, Vinci Kwok Choi Lee, Gordon McKay

Adsorption/Desorption Studies of CO2, Isobutane and 2,2,4-Trimethylpentane in Beta-Zeolite and Usy-Zeolite Using a Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM) ............. 152

Kening Gong, Yao A. Houndonougbo, Subramanya Nayak, Brian B. Laird, Bala Subramaniam, M. P. Dudukovic, P. A. Ramachandran

Dynamic Mean Field Theory of Adsorption and Desorption in Porous Materials.................... 153P. A. Monson

The Effect of Particle Size of Chitosan on Adsorption of Arsenate and Characterization .............................................................................................................................. 154

Katrina Ching Man Kwok, Vinci Kwok Choi Lee, Gordon McKay

Molecular Modeling of Carbon Replica Obtained From Silica Template Using Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulations .................................................................................. 163

Surendra K. Jain, Keith E. Gubbins, Roland J.-M. Pellenq

The Effect of Local Defects on Water Adsorption in Silicalite-1 Zeolite ................................... 164Alain H. Fuchs, Fabien Caillez, Anne Boutin, Isabelle Demachy

Extension of the Quenched Solid Density Functional Theory to Adsorption on Carbons............................................................................................................................................ 165

Peter I. Ravikovitch, Alexander V. Neimark

Determination of Pore Accessibility in Disordered Nanoporous Carbons ............................... 166Thanh X. Nguyen, Suresh K. Bhatia

Hybrid Ion Exchange/nanofiltration (HIX-NF) for Energy Efficient Desalination of Brackish and Sea Water ................................................................................................................. 167

Arup K. Sengupta, Sudipta Sarkar

Synthesis and Characterization of Polycaprolactone Nanoporous Membranes for Liquid-phase Controlled Release .................................................................................................. 175

Chi Yen, Hongyan He, L. James Lee, W.S. Winston Ho

Evaluation of Solvent Resistant Nanofiltration as an Alternative to Distillation in the Isolation of an Active Pharmaceutical Intermediate ............................................................. 176

Jennifer M. Pollard, Kent E. Goklen, David J. Roush

A Countercurrent Cascade of Crossflow Hollow Fiber Membrane Modules for Direct Contact Membrane Distillation: Experimental Studies and Modeling............................ 177

Hanyong Lee, Liming Song, Jack Gilron, Kamalesh K. Sirkar

Dehydration of Hydriodic Acid and Sulfuric Acid by Pervaporation ......................................... 178Frederick F. Stewart, Christopher J. Orme

The Development of a Macro-scale Process to Release Periplasmic Proteins Using Osmotic Shock ..................................................................................................................... 179

Anant Patkar, Subrata Sen, Mike Chappell, Yuk Chiu

Optimizing Filtration of Phytochlorin Compounds ..................................................................... 180Phillip Blake, Nicholas Kamerath, Keith Roper

Flocculation of Yeast Suspension by a Cationic Polymer: Characterization of Flocculent-Cell Interaction ............................................................................................................. 181

Subrata Mondal, Ranil Wickramasinghe, Jong Leng Liow, Y. K. Leong

Methodology for Screening Adsorbents for CO2 Capture .......................................................... 185Jun Zhang, Paul A. Webley

Design of a Hyperbranched Pei/ Mesoporous Silica Hybrid High-Capacity Sorbent for CO2 Capture from Flue Gas...................................................................................................... 186

Jason C. Hicks, Daniel J. Fauth, McMahan L. Gray, Christopher W. Jones

Materials for Reversible High Temperature Chemisorption of CO2........................................... 187Michael G. Beaver, Ki Bong Lee, Hugo S. Caram, Shivaji Sircar

Molecular Modeling of the Adsorption of CO2 in Metal-Organic Frameworks ......................... 188A. Ozgur Yazaydin, Randy Snurr, John J. Low

Atomistic Simulations of CO2 and N2 Adsorption and Diffusion in Zeolites ............................ 189Daniela Kohen, Jameson Dahlin, David Selassie, Disan Davis

Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen on Carbonaceous Sorbents ............................... 190Maciej Radosz, Xudong Hu, Youqing Shen

CO2 Separation from Fuel Gas by Surfactant-Assisted Gas-Hydrate Process ........................ 191Guochang Zhang, Rudy E. Rogers, Ni Liu, Shangmin Xiong, William T. French

Carbon Dioxide Capture Via Oxy-Fuel Combustion and Integrated Pollutant Removal ......... 192Stephen J. Gerdemann, Thomas Ochs, Danylo Oryshchyn, Cathy Summers

Evaluation of Ionic Liquid Based Green Separation Agents for Carbon Combustion Flue Gas Stream Purification................................................................................... 193

Samuel A. Morton III, Debra Shlossman

Modeling Carbon Dioxide Solubility in Poly(Ionic Liquid)S With Cosmotherm ....................... 194Karl Johnson, Yang Wang, Steve R. Lustig

CO2 Sequestration Via Brine/Bauxite Residue Mixture............................................................... 195Yee Soong, R. M. Dilmore, S. W. Hedges, C. Griffith, D. E. Allen, C. Zhu

Membrane and Solid-sorbent Alternatives to Amine Absorption for Separating Carbon Dioxide from Flue Gas ...................................................................................................... 197

Maciej Radosz, Xudong Hu, Youqing Shen

Supported Hydrotalcite Membranes for High Temperature CO2 Separation ............................ 198Liangxiong Li, Ning Liu, Brian McPherson, Robert Lee

Development of Practical Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes: A Systematic Approach....... 213Christina Myers, Jeffery B. Ilconich, Henry W. Pennline, David Luebke

CO2 and N2 Diffusion in Zsm-5 Zeolites with Varying Si/ Al Ratios............................................ 221David A. Newsome, Anton J. Dammers, Marc-Olivier Coppens

Balancing Distillation Column Diameter with Vapor Feeds........................................................ 222Phillip C. Wankat

The Long and the Short of Energy Consumption in Distillation ................................................ 223Angelo Lucia

Process Analysis of Fully Thermally Coupled Distillation Columns Based On Experimental Pilot Plant Data and Dynamic Simulation ............................................................. 224

Gerit Niggemann, Georg Fieg

A Rate-Based Model Approach to Internally Heat Integrated Distillation Columns (HIDiC) .............................................................................................................................................. 225

Koichi Iwakabe, Keigo Matsuda, Masaru Nakaiwa, Kinpei Horiuchi, Toshinari Nakanishi, Akio Horiguchi, Kazuya Kubo, Takao Ohmori, Takuji Yamamoto, Sho Kataoka

Synthesis of Optimal Distillation Networks.................................................................................. 226Arun Giridhar, Rakesh Agrawal

The Attainable Region for Binary Distillation Processes ........................................................... 227Diane Hildebrandt, David Glasser, Germaine Ntunka

Use of Free-Solution Conjugate Electrophoresis (FSCE) as a Highly Sensitive Method to Differentiate Genetically Engineered Protein Polymers with Slight Differences in Length or Charge Distribution .............................................................................. 228

Jennifer S. Lin, Jennifer A. Coyne, Xiaoxiao Wang, Annelise E. Barron

Modeling A Preparative-Scale Dynamic Field Gradient Focusing Instrument ......................... 229Noah I. Tracy, Cornelius F. Ivory

Identification of Conformation Differences Between Protein Isoforms for the Development of Resolute Separation Methods ........................................................................... 230

Madhukar Patel, Joshua Waitzman, Matthew B. Kerby, Anuj Chauhan, Anubhav Tripathi

Surface Characterization of Blended Poly(Vinyl Alcohol)-Chitosan Membranes Using Atomic Force Microscopy ................................................................................................... 231

Md. Nasim Hyder, Robert Y.M. Huang, Pu Chen

Synthesis & Characterization of Thin Film Metal Oxide Membranes ........................................ 233Kyle P. Kostroski, Makonnen M. Payne, Benjamin A. McCool, David C. Calabro, Harry W. Deckman, Andrew E. Riley

Multi-Stage Reactive Separations Using Three-Dimensional Porous Catalytic Polymer Materials ........................................................................................................................... 234

Jung Hun Song, Ilona Kretzschmar

Membrane Fouling, Surface Characterization, and Transport Models in Water Treatment Applications .................................................................................................................. 235

Shih-Chieh Tu, Varadarajan Ravindran, Wonho Song, Massoud Pirbazari

The Impact of Surface Topology on Scaling Propensity of Polyamide Membranes ............... 237Hsiao-yu Nancy Lin, Gregory T. Lewis, Wen-Yi Shih, Yoram Cohen

Effect of Gas Temperature on Membrane Integrity Testing: A Comprehensive Study of Gas Temperature Inside Filter Housing during Pressurization and Depressurization ............................................................................................................................. 238

Jibin Hao

A High Temperature Adsorption Process for Air Separation..................................................... 246Arvind Rajendran, Shamsuzzaman Farooq

Novel Thermal Swing Sorption Enhanced Reaction Process for Simultaneous Production of Fuel-Cell Grade H2 and Compressed CO2 From Synthesis Gas ....................... 247

Ki Bong Lee, Michael G. Beaver, Hugo S. Caram, Shivaji Sircar

Extreme Configurations for Heavy Reflux PSA Cycles............................................................... 248James Ritter, Amal Mehrotra, Steven P. Reynolds, Armin D. Ebner

Development of Computer Aided Design Tools for PSA Processes ......................................... 251Giovanna Fiandaca, Eric Fraga, Stefano Brandani

Simulation of Unique Pressure Changing Steps and Situations in PSA Processes ............... 252Armin D. Ebner, Amal Mehrotra, James C. Knox, M. Douglas LeVan, James A. Ritter

Axial Dispersion and the Danckwerts Boundary Conditions ..................................................... 253Stefano Brandani

Investigation of Protein Imprinting Using Miniemulsion Polymerization through the Epitope Approach..................................................................................................................... 254

Yen Wah Tong, Chau Jin Tan

Investigation of Chemical Selective Displacers Using Robotic High Throughput Screening, Spr, NMR and Md Simulations ................................................................................... 259

Steven Cramer, Chris Morrison, Scott McCallum, Rahul Godawat, James Moore, Shekhar Garde

Microscopic Analysis of Adsorption of E. Coli and Staphylococcus Aureus on Single-wall Carbon Nanotube Aggregates ................................................................................... 260

Shuguang Deng, Venkata Upadhyayula, Goef Smith, Martha Mitchell

Generation and Use of Single Component Internal pH Gradients for Separation of Protein Isoforms.............................................................................................................................. 261

Natarajan Ramasubramanyan, Alan Hunter, Timothy M. Pabst, Giorgio Carta

Protein Refolding by Means of Gradient Chromatography ........................................................ 262Esteban Jaramillo Freydell, Ottens Marcel, Wielen Luuk, Michel Eppink

Size Exclusion Chromatography Applied To Recovery, Purification and Characterization of Microbial Hyaluronic Acid ............................................................................ 263

Diana C. S. Azevedo, Anayla S. Sousa, Artemízia P. Guimarães, Ivanildo J. Silva Jr., Célio L. Cavalcante Jr.

New and Novel Batch Distillation Processes ............................................................................... 264Rakesh Agrawal, Girish S. Joglekar

Non-Pinched Minimum Energy Solutions in Distillation............................................................. 265Amit Amale, Ross Taylor, Angelo Lucia

Process Intensification for the Distillation with Heat-Integration .............................................. 266Keigo Matsuda, Koichi Iwakabe, Takeshi Higuchi, Masayuki Toda, Masaru Nakaiwa

Opportunities for Reduction of Energy Consumption in Batch Distillation Processes .......... 267Nana Yaw Asiedu, Diane Hildebrandt, David Glasser, Brendon Hausberger

Dynamic Modelling and Simulation of Distillation Columns to Overcome the Initialization Issue ........................................................................................................................... 268

Ivan Dones, Heinz A. Preisig

Synthesis of Complex Distillative Separation Sequence............................................................ 270Libin Zhang, Andreas A. Linninger

CO2 Capture By Adsorption Processes – Vacuum Swing Adsorption...................................... 272Paul A. Webley, Jun Zhang, Penny Xiao, Gang Li

Comparison of Vacuum Swing Adsorption and Electrothermal Swing Adsorption for Carbon Dioxide Recovery from Fossil Fuel Power Plant Flue Gas ..................................... 273

Nabil Ettlili, Cécile Vallières, Georges Grévillot

Parametric Analysis of CO2 Capture by Temperature Swing Adsorption Using 5a Zeolite............................................................................................................................................... 274

Marc Clausse, Jérôme Mérel, Francis Meunier

Temperature Dependent Non-Equilibrium Kinetic Model That Describes the Reversible Adsorption and Desorption Behavior of CO2 in a K-Promoted HTlc...................... 275

Armin D. Ebner, Hai Du, James A. Ritter

Multifunctional Carbon Filter Process for CO2, NOx, SOx, and Mercury Flue-Gas Clean-Up .......................................................................................................................................... 276

Maciej Radosz, Xudong Hu, Youqing Shen

Post-Combustion and Pre-Combustion CO2 Capture Solid Sorbents....................................... 277Ranjani V. Siriwardane, Robert W. Stevens Jr., Clark Robinson

Segregation of Solids in a Batch Fluidized Bed .......................................................................... 282Murali mohan Vaka, Nageswara Rao Vuriti, Rajendra Prasad Padamata, Sujatha Vanapalli, Siddi Ramappa

Ceramic Nanofiber Filter Media ..................................................................................................... 293Soo Jin Park, Bharath Raghavan, Sphurti Bhargava, G. G. Chase

Predicting Morphology for Membranes Formed Via Liquid – Liquid Tips ................................ 302Patrick L. Hanks, Douglas R. Lloyd

Investigation of Corrugation Phenomenon in the Inner Contour of Hollow Fibers During the Non-Solvent Induced Phase-Separation Process .................................................... 303

Sina Bonyadi, Tai Shung Chung, William B. Krantz

Silicalite-1/amorphous Silica Mixed-Matrix Membranes By Layer-By-Layer Deposition ........ 304Joshua A. Sheffel, Jungkyu Choi, Michael Tsapatsis

Fundamental Understanding of the Morphology and Macrovoid Evolution of the Single-Layer P84 and Dual-Layer Ultem/P84 ............................................................................... 305

Natalia Widjojo, Tai-Shung Chung, William B. Krantz

Evolution of Macrovoids and Critical Factors to Form Macrovoid-Free Hollow Fiber Membranes ............................................................................................................................ 306

Na Peng, Tai-Shung Chung, Kaiyu Wang

Growth of ETS-10 Films on Gallium Arsenide for Photocatalytic Applications ....................... 307Mariam N. Ismail, Juliusz Warzywoda, Al Sacco Jr.

Porous PVDF Membranes Containing Amphiphilic Comblike Polysiloxane Formed Via Phase Inversion Process........................................................................................... 309

Baoku Zhu, Yanling Qian, Jianhua Wang, Youyi Xu

High Performance Protein Separation by Ion Exchange Membrane Partitioned Free Flow Isoelectric Focusing System........................................................................................ 317

Jiuhua Cheng, Yi Li, Tai Shung Chung, Shing-Bor Chen

The Contribution of Protein-Solvent Interaction in Protein Ultrafiltrations: the Prediction of Limiting Flux through the Free-Solvent Model for Osmotic Pressure ............... 318

Yiheng Wang, Victor G. J. Rodgers

Steric and Electrostatic Interactions Govern Nanofiltration of Amino Acids........................... 319Shankar Chellam, Yongki Shim

Membrane Chromatography: Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of 2-Dimethylaminoethyl Methacrylate .............................................................. 320

Bharatkumar V. Bhut, Scott Husson

Ultrafiltration of Parvovirus ........................................................................................................... 321Ranil Wickramasinghe, David Grzenia

Buffer Effects on Viral Filtration of Mab Solutions with Hollow Fiber Membranes ................. 322Bruno F. Marques, Sianny Christanti, C.S. Brian To, Michael E. Laska, David J. Roush

3D Microdevices for Particle Separation ...................................................................................... 323Christina Randall, Timothy Leong, David H. Gracias

Preparation of Uniform Microcapsules with Silicone Oil as Continuous Phase in a Microchannel Device ...................................................................................................................... 324

Xingchu Gong, Yangcheng Lu, Guangsheng Luo

Functionalized Carbon Coated Cobalt as a Novel Magnetic Nano-devices in Separation Technology .................................................................................................................. 325

Robert N. Grass, Evagelos K Athanassiou, Fabian M. Koehler, Wendelin J. Stark

Protein Separation by Isoelectric Focusing Coupled with Isotachophoresis on a Microfluidic Device ......................................................................................................................... 327

Huanchun Cui, Talukder Zaki Jubery, Prashanta Dutta, Cornelius F. Ivory

Microfluidic Laminar-Flow Extraction of Functional Proteins From Cell Lysate ..................... 328Robert J. Meagher, Yooli K. Light, Anup K. Singh

Characterizing the Long-term Performance and Stability of a Micro Gas Chromatograph .... 329Mathew Luebbers, Adarsh D. Radadia, Byunghoon Bae, Junghoon Yeom, Jea-Hyeong Han, Ilwhan Oh, Mark A. Shannon, Richard I. Masel

Recent Advances in On-Chip High Speed Gas Chromatograph with Carbon Nanotube Sensors .......................................................................................................................... 330

Adarsh D. Radadia, Mark A. Shannon, Richard I. Masel, Michael S. Strano, Keith Cadwallader

Modeling Adsorption and Desorption in Ordered Mesoporous Materials ................................ 331Bradd Libby, P. A. Monson

A Monte Carlo Study of Gas Adsorption on Atomistic Models of Templated Mesoporous Silicas ........................................................................................................................ 332

Francisco R. Hung, Supriyo Bhattacharya, Benoit Coasne, Matthias Thommes, Keith E. Gubbins

Computational Investigation of the Influence of Surface Disorder on Wetting Behavior ........................................................................................................................................... 334

Eric M. Grzelak, Vincent K. Shen, Jeffrey R. Errington

Packing Induced Selectivity During Adsorption of Long Chain N-alkane Mixtures in Zeolites Under Liquid Phase Conditions.................................................................................. 335

Sudeep Punnathanam, Randall Snurr

Study On Hexane Adsorption in Zeolite ITQ-29 By Molecular Simulation................................ 336Miguel A. Granato, Thijs J. H. Vlugt, Alírio E. Rodrigues

On the Crossing of Low Temperature Adsorption Isotherms of Argon on Graphite Surface ............................................................................................................................................. 337

David Nicholson, Duong Do

The Binding of Flue Gas Pollutants on Pd, Au, Ag, Cu and Their Alloys ................................. 338Erdem Sasmaz, Jennifer Wilcox

Adsorption Equilibrium and Kinetics of Hydrogen in Metal Organic Framework (MOF)-5............................................................................................................................................. 339

Dipendu Saha, Zhiguan Yang, Shuguang Deng

Removal of Mercury from Flue Gases Using Ionic Liquid Coated Chelating Adsorbents ...................................................................................................................................... 340

Lei Ji, Stephen W. Thiel, Neville G. Pinto

Rapid Pressure Swing Adsorption System (RPSA) for Oxygen Enrichment of Air : A Comprehensive Model & Analysis............................................................................................. 341

Pallavi Chitta, Bruce J. Tatarchuk

Hybrid Adsorption-Distillation System for Olefin-Paraffin Separations ................................... 342Ramiel Nassara, F. Handan Tezel

Gas Separation Cycles Using Multiple Adsorption Units ........................................................... 343Alberto I. LaCava

Enhancement of Bio-Ethanol Production By Adsorption........................................................... 344Rudy Jones, F. Handan Tezel, Jules Thibault

Direct Nanoflux in Ptmsp and Composites Thereof .................................................................... 345Jason P. Killgore, Rene M. Overney

Natural Gas Purification Using High Performance Crosslinked Hollow Fiber Membranes: Effects of High Pressure CO2 and Toluene Feed .................................................. 346

Imona C. Omole, Stephen J. Miller, William Koros

Sulfonated Polyethersulfone-Based Membranes with Different Ion Forms for High-Performance Gas Separation ............................................................................................... 347

Yi Li, Tai-Shung Chung

Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (scCO2) Separations Using Torlon® Based Asymmetric Hollow Fiber Membranes.......................................................................................... 348

Madhava R. Kosuri, William J. Koros

Enhanced Gas Separation Performance of 6FDA-ODA-NDA/PSF Dual-Layer Hollow Fiber Membranes Via Substructure Resistance Reduction Using the Mixed Matrix Approach.............................................................................................................................. 349

Natalia Widjojo, Shaohua David Zhang, Tai-Shung Chung

The Effects of Spinneret Dimension and Hollow Fiber Dimension on Gas Separation Performance of Ultra-Thin Defect-Free Torlon® Hollow Fiber Membranes ...................................................................................................................................... 350

Na Peng, Tai-Shung Chung

Complex Hydride Hydrogen Storage Vessel Design................................................................... 351Yongfeng Wang, Armin D. Ebner, James A. Ritter

A Thermodynamic Model for Hydrate Equilibrium in Sediments .............................................. 353Patricia Taboada-Serrano, Costas Tsouris

Adsorption Heat Storage for Solar Energy Applications............................................................ 354Dan Dicaire, F. Handan Tezel

Adsorption Equilibrium and Kinetics of Fluoride On Alumina-Based Adsorbents ................. 355Arely Torres, Shuguang Deng, Daniel Candelaria, Laura Nunez, Ryan McCool

Mesoporous Carbon with Impregnated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Arsenic Removal from Aqueous Solution .................................................................................................. 356

Xinhua Li, Liangxiong Li, Robert Lee

Adsorption of Frying Oil Polar Components by Magnesium Silicate and Activated Carbon.............................................................................................................................................. 368

Ozgul Ozcan, Sevil Ozgul-Yucel

Performance of Liquids Recovery Plant Demethanizer .............................................................. 369Glenn Shiveler, Derrick Oneal

Mass Transfer Characteristics of Packed Beds Containing Catalytic Structured Packing: Model Vs. Experiment..................................................................................................... 370

Zarko Olujic, Marcel Behrens, Peter Jansens

Dry Tray Pressure Drop of Sieve Trays ........................................................................................ 371Daniel R. Summers

High Capacity Co-Current Flow Distillation Internals ................................................................. 372Zhanping Xu, Paul Sechrist, Greg Wisniewski, Gavin P. Towler

CFD Study for Chimney Tray Design in Crude Fractionators .................................................... 373Karolline Ropelato, Ricardo Rodrigues, Andre C. Bellote, Gunter Schnaibel, Glaucia A. Torres, Maria E. P. L. Marsiglia, Carlos N. Fonseca, Antonio V. S. Castro

A Case Study of Packed Column Maldistribution and Its Impact on Separation Efficiency ......................................................................................................................................... 383

Pankaj S. Gautam, Wesam El Ramahi, Andy Grahn, Don Paciorkowski, David Albright, Mohan Khadilkar

Characterization of Oxygen Scavenging Membranes Based On Polybutadiene ..................... 394Hua Li, Keith Ashcraft, Scott Matteucci, Kevin Tung, Benny Freeman, Mark Stewart, Jason Jenkins

Measurement of Diffusion and Permeation Coefficients of Oxygen in Polymers Based on Luminescence Quenching ............................................................................................ 395

Sanchari Chowdhury, Justin Dodson, Venkat R. Bhethanabotla, Rajan Sen

Direct Measurement of the Chemical Potential Driving Force Behind the Evaporation-induced Diffusion of Water Through Hydrogels.................................................... 403

Tobias D. Wheeler, Abraham D. Stroock

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Diffusion and Sorption of Water in Conducting Polyaniline ....................................................................................................................................... 404

Muhammad Sahimi, Mayur Ostwal, Theodore Tsotsis

Water and Ethanol Counter-Diffusion in Ion Exchange Membranes......................................... 405John Pellegrino, Peter McCormick, Giulio Sarti

Diffusion of Cyclohexane in Styrene Block Copolymers, Relationship between Mass Transport and Viscoelastic Properties ............................................................................... 406

Marco Giacinti Baschetti, Ferruccio Doghieri, Fabio Bacchelli, Maria Grazia De Angelis, Salvatore Coppola

Spinodal Decomposition in Ternary Systems with Significantly Different Component Diffusivities................................................................................................................. 413

Abdulrahman Alfarraj, E. Bruce Nauman

Water Transport in Nafion® Using Time-Resolved Ftir-Atr Spectroscopy ............................... 416Daniel T. Hallinan Jr., Yossef A. Elabd

Protein Adsorption Kinetics in Chromatographic Particles Visualized by Optical Microscopy ...................................................................................................................................... 417

Melani C. Stone, David M. Schlientz, Giorgio Carta

Effect of Detector Response on Dynamic Column Breakthrough Experiments ...................... 418Arvind Rajendran, Shamsuzzaman Farooq, Vinay Kariwala

Is Differential Volumetric Technique More Accurate .................................................................. 419Dr. Orhan Talu, Asli Ertan

Diffusion of Solvent Vapors in Nanoporous Adsorbents: Single Particle Studies Using Concentration Swing Frequency Response ..................................................................... 420

M. Douglas LeVan, Yu Wang, T. Grant Glover

Determination of the Competitive Isotherms of Enantiomers by a Hybrid Inverse Method Using Overload Band Profiles and the Periodic State of the Smb Process ............... 421

João M. M. Araújo, Rui C. R. Rodrigues, José P. B. Mota

Mathematical Modeling and Visualization of Gas Transport in a Zeolite Bed Using a Slice Selection Procedure ........................................................................................................... 422

Michael Petryk, Sébastien Leclerc, Daniel Canet, Jacques P. Fraissard

Computer Program for Filter Media Design Optimization .......................................................... 433Sailaja Dharmanolla, G. G. Chase

2-D Simulation of Continuous Separation of Magnetic Particles in Single-Wire and Multi-Wire Arrays ............................................................................................................................ 439

Fei Chen, Kenneth A. Smith, T. Alan Hatton

Computer Aided Analysis in Mechanical Operations – Filtration .............................................. 440Asha Immanuel Raju Chaduvula, Ravi Prasad Andra, Jagannadha Rao Patruni, Srinivasa Babji Josyula, Kiran Kumar Nalla, Murali Yugandhar Nikku, Israel Yedluri

A Predictive Pressure Drop Model for A Multi-Filter Array Filtration System .......................... 441Ryan A. Sothen, Bruce Tatarchuk

Design Characteristics of Pleated Filters and Their Corresponding Effect On Pressure Resistance....................................................................................................................... 442

Ryan A. Sothen, Bruce Tatarchuk

CFD Modeling of a Candle Filter Vessel: Ash Bridging Effects ................................................. 443Ali R. Mazaheri, Isaac K. Gamwo, Goodarz Ahmadi

Effect of Colloid-Colloid Interactions on Deposition in Porous Media ..................................... 444Huilian Ma, William P. Johnson

Fouling Development on Reverse Osmosis Membranes............................................................ 445Thuy Tran, Brian Bolto, Stephen Gray, Eddy Ostarcevic

Studies On Scaling of Membranes in Desalination By Dcmd .................................................... 447Fei He, Jack Gilron, Hanyong Lee, Liming Song, Kamalesh K. Sirkar

Rapid Characterization of Membrane Fouling by Proteins in Constant Flux Microfiltration and Development of Mathematical Model for Fouling Prediction..................... 448

Xinghua Sun, Raja Ghosh

Kinetics of RO Membrane Scaling in the Presence of Antiscalants.......................................... 449James Au, Myung-man Kim, Anditya Rahardianto, Eric Lyster, Yoram Cohen

Potential Fouling Resistant Coating Materials Synthesized by UV Induced Polymerization................................................................................................................................. 451

Yuan-Hsuan Wu, Benny Freeman

Development of Novel Hydrophilic Bactericidal Membranes..................................................... 453Ramamoorthy Malaisamy, Kimberly L. Jones

Novel Yeast and Oil Drop Microfiltration Equipment .................................................................. 458Michael Terence Stillwell, Wiwit Sumritwatchasai, Richard G. Holdich, Serguei R. Kosvintsev

Exploration of Dual-Layer Sulfonated Polyethersulfone/polyethersulfone Hollow Fiber Membranes in Protein Separation ....................................................................................... 466

Yi Li, Tai-Shung Chung

Purification of Equine Immunoglobulin G (IgG) From Horse Serum Using an Enhanced Membrane Based Hybrid Bioseparation Technique ................................................. 467

Lu Wang, Raja Ghosh

Dynamic Characterization of Affinity Membranes for Monoclonal Antibodies Purification ...................................................................................................................................... 468

Simone Dimartino, Cristiana Boi, Giulio C. Sarti

Affinity Based Separation of Proteins Using Functionalized Microfiltration Membranes....... 474Saurav Datta, D. Bhattacharyya, A. Nath

Transport of Proteins in a Nanopore ............................................................................................ 475Leili Javidpour, M. Reza Rahimi Tabar, Muhammad Sahimi

High Sensitivity Binary Gas Integrity Test for Porous Membranes........................................... 476Sal Giglia, Mani Krishnan

Volume 2

Removal of Nanoparticles from Copper Chemical Mechanical Planarization Wastes via Novel Separation Methods ......................................................................................... 477

Eduardo V. Carrera, Moses N. Bogere

Chemical Decontamination of Spills in Water Streams .............................................................. 489A. Sadana, Tingting Zhu

Investigation of the Effectiveness of Various Treatment Methods to Remove Endocrine Disrupting Compounds from Domestic Wastewater ................................................ 490

Nitesh Poladia, Robert W. Peters, Robert A. Angus

Oil/water Separation: Examination of Various Treatment Techniques ..................................... 496Tracy Williams, Robert W. Peters, M. P. Sharma

Identification and Treatment of Emerging Contaminants in Wet Weather Flows .................... 507Stephen M. Ritchie, Pauline D. Johnson, Robert E. Pitt

Critical Length of Diffusion during Sequential Separation of Whey Proteins Using Radial Chromatography ................................................................................................................. 508

Kal Renganathan Sharma

Recovery of High Purity Organic Solvents from Waste Photoresist Strippers ........................ 520Han Sang Oh, Dae-Jin Kim, Myung-Jun Park, Moon-Kyu Yoon, Moonyong Lee, Kee-Kahb Koo

Structural Design and Separation Characteristic of Divided Wall Column by the Shortcut Method.............................................................................................................................. 521

Seunghyun Lee, M. Shamsuzzoha, Moonyong Lee

Influence of Mass Transfer on Conceptual Design of Distillation Processes .......................... 529Ross Taylor, Angelo Lucia

Energy Efficient Reactive Distillation ........................................................................................... 530Ross Taylor, Angelo Lucia

Problems Arising out of Impurities in Steam Turbines............................................................... 531Ehsan Bakhshi, Fatemeh Abniki

Bioseparations Using Magnetic Fluids......................................................................................... 532Saurabh Tejwani, Fei Chen, Kenneth A. Smith, T. Alan Hatton

Characteristics of CO2 Absorption Into Aqueous Ammonia ...................................................... 533Kwang Bok Yi, You Jeong Kim, Chang Hyun Ko, Jong-Ho Park, Jong-Nam Kim

Effect of Polymer Concentration on Surfae Characteristics and Performance of Cellulose Acetate Membranes Fabricated for On-Chip Applications ........................................ 534

Jermey N.A. Matthews, Kimberly L. Jones

Separation of Ink from Recycled Paper Assisted by Electric Field ........................................... 540Akpojotor Shemi, Jeff Hsieh

Design of Reactive Distillation Systems Using A Process Systems Engineering Approach ......................................................................................................................................... 542

Alejandro O. Domancich, Nelida B. Brignole, Patricia M. Hoch

Separation of Organic Acids from Fermenation Broths Using Electrodeionization: Fundamental Determination of Wafer Thickness on Transport Properties .............................. 545

Heath Himstedt, Jamie A. Hestekin

Calculation of Distillation Energy for Life Cycle Inventories ..................................................... 546Evan, M. Griffing, Michael R. Overcash

Extraction Dynamics of Ethyl Ester of Docosahexaenoic Acid with Silver Ion with Slug Flow Prepared by Microreactor ............................................................................................ 547

Eiji Kamio, Yu Seike, Hidekazu Yoshizawa, Tsutomu Ono

Design of Distillation Process for Separation of HFP/TFE ......................................................... 548Inho Song, Hyoseong Ahn, Hyunsoo Jeon, Houn-Kyu Joung, In-Joon Park, Soo-Bok Lee, Yongtaek Lee

Separation of 1-Butene/n-Butane Using Mesoporous Mcm-41 Containing Cuprous/ferrous Ions Pair.............................................................................................................. 549

Sung Soo Kim, Min Kang, Hyung Ik Lee, Chang Hyun Ko, Jong-Nam Kim, Ji Man Kim

Dynamic Model of a SFE Plant for the Extraction of Squalene from Olive Oil Residues ........ 550João B. Fernandes, Pedro C. Simões, J. P. B. Mota

Kinetics of Dopant Diffusion into Films for Reducing Radiation-Induced Conductivity in Polymeric Dielectrics........................................................................................... 551

Robert J. Klein, John L. Schroeder, Shannon M. Lacy, Michael E. Belcher, Phillip J. Cole, Joseph L. Lenhart

Adsorption of Mercury on Coarse Loamy Mixed Hyperthermic Fluventic Hyplustept Soil of Punjab, North-West India ............................................................................... 552

H. S. Hundal, Kuldip Singh, Dhanwinder Singh

Adsorption of Nickel on Coarse Loamy Mixed Hyperthermic Fluventic Haplustept Soil of Punjab, North-West India ................................................................................................... 556

Kuldip -Singh, Dhanwinder -Singh, H. S. Hundal

Surface-Modified Alumina as a High Capacity Material of 99Mo/99mTc Generator Column ............................................................................................................................................. 560

Jun Sig Lee, Jong Sup Lee, Ul-Jae Park, Kwang-Jae Son, Hyon-Soo Han, Seung Kon Ryu

Adsorption of Lead on Fine Loamy Mixed Typic Dystrudepts Soil, of Himachal Pradesh, North-West India ............................................................................................................. 568

Dhanwinder Singh, Kuldip -Singh, H. S. Hundal

Adsorptive Separation of Chloronitrobenzene ............................................................................ 572Akekasit Leardsakulthong, Pramoch Rangsunvigit, Santi Kulprathipanja

Dyes Adsorption and Photo-Degradation Mechanisms on Anatase ......................................... 573Anca Duta, Luminita Andronic

Adsorption Kinetics of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons into High Silica Zeolite ............................. 581Kazuyuki Chihara, Shinji Kondo, Takashi Matumoto

Olefin Selectivity Enhancement of Silver-Nitrate Impregnated Aluminosilica by Sodium Hydroxide Treatment on Substrate................................................................................. 583

Chang Hyun Ko, Jince Sebastian, Jong-Ho Park, Kwang Bok Yi, Sang-Sup Han, Soon-Haeng Cho, Jong-Nam Kim

Adsorption Mechanisms of Heavy Metals on Fly Ash with Modified Surface Charge ............ 584Maria Visa, Anca Duta

Development of High Temperature Desorption System in the Adsorptive Concentrator for Heavy Components of Voc(Volatile Organic Compounds)........................... 590

Ken-ichiro Yamada, Keimei Furuki, Yuuji Fujioka, Hiroshi Okano, Tsutomu Hirose

Adsorption of Water Vapor Onto Microporous Carbons Prepared by Various Oxidation Methods.......................................................................................................................... 597

Takahiro Mikami, Kazunori Kawata, Yohinobu Otake

Multi-Scale Simulation Starting at the Molecular Level for N-Hexane Chromatographic Process ............................................................................................................. 598

Hae-jeong Son, Young-il Lim, Kyung-soo Nam, Kyung-Seun Yoo

Chemisorption of Hydrogen on Oxidized Activated Carbons after Their Heat Treatment ......................................................................................................................................... 599

Atsushi Gabe, Takuma Hirahara, Takanori Baba, Yoshinobu Otake

Modeling the Electrokinetic Decontamination of Concrete By Petrov-Galerkin Finite Element Method.................................................................................................................... 600

Patrick A. Oglesby, Michael T. Harris

Comparison of Two Adsorbents for the Separation of a Sugar Mixture Based on SMB Process ................................................................................................................................... 601

Se-Hee Jo, Sungyong Mun

Adsorption of Acetic Acid Vapour By Protective Packaging Materials Used for Preventive Conservation of Cultural Heritage Objects ............................................................... 602

Cécile Vallières, Georges Grévillot, Stéphanie Pacault

Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography for Gaseous Applications ........................................ 603Isabel A. A. C. Esteves, J. P. B. Mota, Mário F. J. Eusébio

Development of Calcium Oxide Sorbents for Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide .......................... 605Hong Lu, Panagiotis (Peter) Smirniotis

Alkali Metal Removal from Coal Extracts Using Ion Exchange ................................................. 606Kwang B. Yi, Ji-Won Ha, Chang Hyun Ko, Jong-Ho Park, Si Hyun Lee, Jong-Nam Kim

Sorption Properties of N2 and H2 on Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube-graphite Mixture Modified by Alkaline Hydroxides..................................................................................... 607

Fatma O. Erdogan, Turkan Kopac

Modeling of PSA Process in Fuel Ethanol Production: Effect of Ethanol Co-Adsorption on the Performance .................................................................................................... 608

Marian Simo, Daniel M. Leo, Mohammadali Safavieh, Christopher J. Brown, Vladimir Hlavacek

Charge and Discharge Cycles in a Storage Vessel for Adsorbed Natural Gas ........................ 609Marcelo R. Amora, A. Eurico B. Torres, Diana C. S. Azevedo, Célio L. Cavalcante Jr.

Modification Methods to Reduce or Eliminate Non-Zeolite Pores for Hydrogen Separations...................................................................................................................................... 610

Moises Carreon, Dean E. Camper, Shiguang Li, Richard Noble

Effect of Concentration Polarization on Flux Decline for Ultrafiltration in Tubular Membranes ...................................................................................................................................... 611

Ho-Ming Yeh, S. Y. Lin, C. H. Lee

Separation of Propane from Nitrogen Using Polydimethyl Siloxane Thin Film Composite Membranes................................................................................................................... 612

Jianhua Cao, Yang-Zheng Lin, Ji-Ding Li, Cui-Xian Chen, Sheng Lu

Synthesis, Characterization of Polyurethaneimide and Pervaporation Performances to Benzene/cyclohexane ....................................................................................... 620

Hong Ye, Jiding Li, Jian Chen, Cuixian Chen

Preparation of Poly Phthalazinone Ether Ketone Asymmetric Ultrafiltration Membrane Via Phase Inversion: Composition of Casting Solutions ........................................ 627

Weina Sun, Cuixian Chen, Jiding Li

Water Uptake, Transport and Structural Characterization in Crosslinked N-Vinyl-2-Pyrrolidone/ N,N'-Methylene Bisacrylamide Membranes ........................................................ 635

Yuan-Hsuan Wu, Benny Freeman

Mixed Matrix Membranes for Gas Separations ............................................................................ 637Pipat Singha-In, Thirasak Rirksomboon, Santi Kulprathipanja

Isotropic Microporous Mixed Matrix (Zeotips) Membranes........................................................ 638Caleb V. Funk, Bonnie L. Beavers, Courtney A. Taylor, Douglas R. Lloyd

Removing of Dimethyl Carbonate from Dimethyl Carbonate / Methanol Azeotrope by Pervaporation............................................................................................................................. 639

Luying Wang, Jiding Li, Yangzheng Lin, Cuixian Chen

Poly(dimethyl siloxane)/Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Composite Membrane for Separation of n-Butane /N2 Mixture .............................................................................................. 647

Sheng Lu, Jianhua Cao, Jiding Li

On the Use of Recycle in Reverse Osmosis Method for Desalination of Sea Water ............... 656Kal Renganathan Sharma

New Sulfonated Copolymer Membranes for High Temperature Proton-exchange Membrane Fuel Cells ...................................................................................................................... 676

He Bai, W.S. Winston Ho

Hydrogen Sulfide and Carbon Dioxide-selective Facilitated Transport Membranes for Fuel-cell Fuel Processing ......................................................................................................... 677

He Bai, Jin Huang, W.S. Winston Ho

Preparation of Multi-Layer PDMS/PVDF Composite Membranes for Ethanol Recovery from Water by Pervaporation ....................................................................................... 678

Xia Zhan, Jiding Li, Cuixian Chen, Junqi Huang

Anomalous Diffusion of Water Vapor in Dense Polyimide Membranes Prepared from 3,3'4,4'-Benzophenonetetracarboxylic Dianhydride and Phenylene Diamine ................. 685

Yexin Xu, Cuixian Chen, Jiding Li

Synthesis and Characterization of Polycaprolactone Nanoporous Membranes for Implantable Drug Delivery Devices ............................................................................................... 686

Chi Yen, Hongyan He, L. James Lee, W.S. Winston Ho

A Finite Element Model of a Gas Permeation Unit ...................................................................... 687William M. Clark, Jeremy Lebowitz

Modeling of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane and Proton Transport Via Atomic Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation ......................................................................................... 688

Pil Seung Chung, Parag Jain, Haigang Chen, Lorenz T. Biegler, Myung S. Jhon

Complex Fluids for Membrane-Based Separations..................................................................... 691Stephen M. Martin, Sangil Han

Dehydration Separation of Tetrahydrofuran-Water Mixtures by Pervaporation with Commercially Available Membranes............................................................................................. 692

Timothy Moroz, Colleen McGinness, David Schiavi, Mariano J. Savelski, C. Stewart Slater

Functionalized Microfiltration Membranes for Bio-Separations ................................................ 693Saurav Datta, A. Nath, D. Bhattacharyya

Transport Properties of Supercritical Fluid Processed Proton Exchange Membranes .......... 694Juan C. Pulido, David Suleiman

Transport Properties of Supercritical Fluid Processed Proton Exchange Membranes: Methanol Permeability and Proton Conductivity................................................... 695

Juan C. Pulido, Alba Y. Marrero, David Suleiman

Thermoporometric Investigation of Solvent-surface Interactions in Nanoporous Inorganic Membranes ..................................................................................................................... 696

Geoffrey D. Bothun

Polymer and Inorganic Membrane Research Activities at the Ohio State University ............. 697W.S. Winston Ho, Henk Verweij, He Bai

Adsorption and Phase Behavior of Fluids in Novel Micro/Mesoporous Silica Materials with Hierarchical Pore Structure................................................................................... 698

Matthias Thommes, Ö. Sel, Peter I. Ravikovitch, Bernd Smarsly, Alexander V. Neimark

Characterization of the Structural and Vibrational Properties of Phyllosilicate Clay Minerals ................................................................................................................................... 699

James P. Larentzos, Jeffery A. Greathouse, Randall T. Cygan

High Pressure Flow Reactor Test and in-Situ Ftir Characterization of Ammonia Absorption/desorption Performance Over Zeolites .................................................................... 700

Hanjing Tian, Robert W. Stevens, Frank Thomas, Ranjani V. Siriwardane

Far Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy as a Characterization Tool for Zeolite-like Porous Adsorbents..................................................................................................... 707

Tyler M. McGown, Xin Sun, Jennifer L. Anthony, John R. Schlup

Synthesis and Characterization of TiO2 Ion-Sieves for Lithium Adsorption............................ 708Qin-Hui Zhang

Adsorption of Hydrogen and Argon on [Zn(Bdc)(Ted)0.5] 2DMF 0.2H2O Metal-Organic Framework ........................................................................................................................ 709

Vaiva Krungleviciute, Kathleen Lask, Murat Bulut, Aldo D. Migone, Hyuna Lim, Jing Li

Optimum Batch Distillation of Multicomponent Mixtures........................................................... 710Zbigniew T. Fidkowski

A Rate-Based Process Modeling Study of CO2 Capture with Aqueous Mea Solution............. 711Chau-Chyun Chen, Davy Zuo

Rate-Based and Equilibrium Model Approach for Absorption of Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Multicomponent Mixtures: Simulation and Experiment ................................ 712

Diethmar Richter, Jens-Uwe Repke, Martin Kohrt, Holger Thielert, Guenter Wozny

Modelling, Simulation and Experimental Investigation of Hybrid Separation Processes ........................................................................................................................................ 714

Carsten Buchaly, Peter Kreis, Andrzej Gorak

Benchmarking Packing Performance Correlations with a Nonequilibrium Model................... 721Harry Kooijman, Ross Taylor

Modeling the Performance of Conventional and High Capacity Structured Packings .......................................................................................................................................... 722

Zarko Olujic

Crystallization Research Past, Present and Future..................................................................... 723Allan S. Myerson

Thermodynamic Models for the Solubility and Purity of Amino Acid Crystals in Multicomponent Systems .............................................................................................................. 724

Angel Olivera-Toro, Ronald W. Rousseau, Amyn S. Teja

Strategic Opportunities for Hyperthermophilic Microorganisms and Enzymes in Bioenergy Conversion Processes................................................................................................. 725

Robert M. Kelly

Nucleation Kinetics Determination in High-Throughput Microfluidic Systems ....................... 726Li May Goh, Kejia Chen, Guangwen He, Venkateswarlu Bhamidi, Paul J. A. Kenis, Charles F. Zukoski, Richard D. Braatz

Novel Design Strategies for Solution Crystallization Processes............................................... 734H.J.M. Kramer, R. Lakerveld, Pieter J. Jansens, Johan Grievink

Developing the Final and Finishing Steps for R-411 Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient ......................................................................................................................................... 737

Ram Narayan, Jay Lawrimore, Brandon Shealy, Rob Huber, Tom Cleary, Michael Blocker

Chromatography Membrane Reactor System for the Continuous Synthesis of Galactosyl-Oligosaccharides......................................................................................................... 738

Peter Czermak, Larisa Engel, Mehrdad Ebrahimi

Pure Ester Produced Via a Water-Removing Membrane Reactor.............................................. 739Juan C. Cruz, Mary E. Rezac, Stuart Nemser, Sudipto Majumdar

Lipase Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Olive Oil in the Biphasic Enzyme Membrane Reactor: Modeling of Mass Transfer Effect.................................................................................. 740

Pugazhenthi Gopal, A. Kumar

Simulation of a Reactive Separation Application for CO2 Removal .......................................... 749Hyun Tae Hwang, Aadesh Harale, Paul K. T. Liu, Muhammad Sahimi, Theodore Tsotsis

Computer Aided Design, Analysis and Experimental Investigation of Membrane Assisted Batch Reaction ................................................................................................................ 750

Piotr Tomasz Mitkowski, Carsten Buchaly, Peter Kreis, Gunnar Jonsson, Rafiqul Gani, Andrzej Górak

A Study On Steam Reforming of Methanol in a Pd-Based Membrane Reactor Fabricated By Surfactant Induced Electroless Plating ............................................................... 752

Mohammad A. Islam, Mohammad H. Akanda, Shamsuddin Ilias

Network Structure Modification of Crosslinked Polyethylene Oxide for Reverse-Selective Carbon Dioxide Removal from Mixtures with Hydrogen............................................ 753

Victor A. Kusuma, Scott Matteucci, Benny D. Freeman, Douglass S. Kalika, Michael K. Danquah, Matthew A. Borns

Enhancing High Temperature Hydrogen Separation On Mfi Zeolite Membranes By On-Stream Modification of Zeolitic Pores .................................................................................... 755

Xuehong Gu, Zhong Tang, Junhang Dong

First-Principles Approaches to Screening Multicomponent Metal Alloys for Hydrogen Purification Membranes ............................................................................................... 756

Lymarie Semidey-Flecha, Chen Ling, David S. Sholl

Evaluation and Characterization of Pd-Based Membrane Fabricated By Surfactant Induced Electroless Plating ........................................................................................................... 757

Mohammad A. Islam, Shamsuddin Ilias

Long-Term Hydrogen Characterization of Composite Pd and Pd-Ag Membranes Synthesized from Agitated Electroless Pd and Ag Plating Baths ............................................. 758

M. Engin Ayturk, Yi Hua Ma

Surface and Fluid Phase Transport Effects on Hydrogen Permeability through Palladium-Based Membranes ........................................................................................................ 762

Abdulrahman Y. Al Raisi, Tracy Q. Gardner

Nanopore Membrane Based Reactors for Production of High Purity Hydrogen from Ammonia & Methanol ............................................................................................................ 770

Sameer H. Israni, Michael P. Harold

Microfluidic Platforms for Membrane Protein Crystallization .................................................... 771S.L. Perry, Griffin W. Roberts, Sameer Talreja, J.D. Tice, C.F. Zukoski, P.J.A. Kenis

The Impact of Mixing Times Scales and Process Parameters On the Optimisation and Scale Up of Anti-Solvent Addition Crystallizations ............................................................. 773

Mark Barrett, Dr. Eoin Casey, Dr. Brian Glennon

Kinetics and Size Distributions Resulting From Fractional Crystallization of Multiple Solutes From Complex Solutions................................................................................... 774

Laurent Nassif, George Dumont, Ronald W. Rousseau

Rethinking Crystallization Processes........................................................................................... 776Daniel A. Green, Changzai Chi

Effect of Crystal Aging and Agglomeration on Particle Breakage in Saturated Solutions .......................................................................................................................................... 777

Devkant S. Gandhi, Priscilla Hill

Computationally Efficient Hybrid Method for the Inversion of Chord Length Distributions to Particle Size Distributions .................................................................................. 779

Pavan Kumar Akkisetty, Michael Lasinski, Nandkishor Nere, Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Gintaras. V. Reklaitis, Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Willis V. Bell III, Gary Blau

Effective Gas/liquid Contact Area ................................................................................................. 781J. Christopher Lewis, A. Frank Seibert, James R. Fair

An Improved Model to Predict Liquid-Side Mass Transfer Coefficient in Stripping Applications..................................................................................................................................... 782

Jacinto Lopez-Toledo, Mahesh Sawant, Flor Castillo, Patrick Au-Yeung, John Pendergast

Uniqueness and Stability of the Steady State in Flash Reactors .............................................. 794Yuan Xu, B. Erik Ydstie

Asymptotic Analysis of Effects of Bulk Liquid Reaction Disequilibria on Absorption in Packed Columns..................................................................................................... 795

Jerry H. Meldon

Side Reactor Configuration for the Production of Ethyl Acetate............................................... 799R. C. Tsai, J. K. Cheng, Hsiao-Ping Huang, Cheng-Ching Yu, Yi-Shan Shen, Y. D. Chen

Modeling the Hydrodynamics of KATAPAK-SP Using the Particle Approach ......................... 800Ricardo Macías-Salinas

Characterization of Boron-doped Carbon Synthesized Under Atmospheric Conditions and Its Influence on Pt Nanoparticles ....................................................................... 801

Chethan Acharya, Heath Turner

Is 129Xe NMR a Useful Technique for Probing the Pore Structure and Surface Properties of Carbonaceous Solids?............................................................................................ 802

Konstantin V. Romanenko, Jean-Baptiste D’Espinose de Lacaillerie, Olga Lapina, Jacques P. Fraissard

Kinetics of H2S, SO2 and H2O Desorption From Amorphous Carbon Films ............................. 807J.B. Miller, E. Broitman, W. Michalak, A.J. Gellman, M.A. Alvin, M. Mathur

Characterization of Polysaccharide Based Chiral Sorbents Using Infrared Spectroscopy, X-Ray Diffraction, 13C Solid State NMR, and Density Functional Theory ................................ 808

Rahul B. Kasat, Nien-Hwa Linda Wang, Elias I. Franses

Characterization of Powdered Activated Carbon Using Gaseous- and Aqueous-Phase Indices .............................................................................................................................................. 809

Douglas K. Ludlow, Ritesh Jain, Craig Adams

Novel Technique of Estimating the Fraction of Open-Ended Carbon Nanotubes ................... 830Sandeep Agnihotri, Yijing Zheng, J.P.B. Mota, Pyoungchung Kim

New Method to Determine Micropore Volume and Surface Area of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes .......................................................................................................................... 837

Yijing Zheng, Pyoungchung Kim, Sandeep Agnihotri

Development of a Hybrid System to Improve the Anti-Fouling Performance of the UF Membrane during the Specific Industrial Wastewater Treatment ........................................ 845

Fatma O. Erdogan, Turkan Kopac

Hybrid Chitosan/poly(Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogels for Use as Highly Anti-Fouling Ultrafiltration Membrane Coatings for Synthetic Oily Water Treatment ................................... 846

Bryan D. McCloskey, Hao Ju, Ho-Bum Park, Victor A. Kusuma, Benny D. Freeman

Carrier Selection to Enhance Heavy Metal Ions Transmembrane Flux Through a Supported Liquid Membrane System ........................................................................................... 847

Junwen Lv, Qian Yang, Jianwen Jiang, T.S. Chung

Surface Modification of Polyethylene Hollow Fiber Membrane by the Grafting of 2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate ......................................................................................................... 848

Jian Pan, Cuixian Chen

Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Composite Styrene Acrylonitrile Membranes for the Separation of Chromic Acid ................................................... 855

Anil Kumar, Sonny Sachdeva

Sulfonated Block Copolymers for Water and Liquid Separation Applications ........................ 861Scott R. Trenor, Dale L. Handlin Jr.

Effect of Bacteria and Virus Shape on Rejection by Microfiltration Membranes: Comparison of Experiment with Hindered Transport Theory .................................................... 862

Ruth E. Baltus, Wendong Xu, Appala Raju Badireddy, Shankar Chellam

Temperature Effects on Sieving Characteristics of Thin-film Composite Nanofiltration Membranes: Pore Size Distributions and Transport Parameters...................... 864

Shankar Chellam, Ramesh Sharma

Effects of Supercritical CO2 Conditioning On Uncrosslinked Polyimide Membranes for Natural Gas Separations ..................................................................................... 865

Adam M. Kratochvil, William J Koros

Atomistic Packing Model for a Gas Seperation Membrane Polymer with Intrinsic Microporosity .................................................................................................................................. 866

Matthias Heuchel, Detlev Fritsch, Peter M. Budd, Peter M. McKeown, Dieter Hofmann

The Modified Léveque Limit for Spacer-Filled Channels............................................................ 867Abhishek Shrivastava, Satish Kumar, Edward L. Cussler

Experimental Study and CFD Modelling of an Inorganic Membrane Module for H2 Purification ...................................................................................................................................... 873

Giuseppina Montante, Marco Giacinti Baschetti, Jacopo Catalano, Diego Pizzi, Alessandro Paglianti, Giulio Sarti

A Novel Membrane Flux and Separation Factor Calculation Combined to Modified Unifac Model and Percolation-fractal Theory .............................................................................. 881

Xuechun Liu, Cuixian Chen, Jiding Li

Energy Reduction in the Production of Ethanol by Membrane Dehydration ........................... 884Pierre Cote, Christian Roy, Normand Bernier

Fractionation of Pre-Treatment Hydrolysis Products from Lignocellulosic Biomass............. 894Kendra Colyar, John Pellegrino, Kiran L. Kadam

Membrane Steam Reforming for H2 Production.......................................................................... 895Erik Engwall, John Saukaitis, Mahendra Joshi, Andreas Matzakos, Alan Del Paggio

The Separation of Water from Steam/hydrogen Mixtures Using A NaA-Coated Alumina Membrane ......................................................................................................................... 898

Raymond Everson, Hein Neomagus, Henning Krieg, Shawn Moodley

Polybenzimidazole (PBI) Nanofiltration Hollow Fiber Membranes Applied in Forward Osmosis Process............................................................................................................. 899

Kai Yu Wang, Tai Shung Chung, Jian-Jun Qin

Flux Enhancement in Membrane Distillation by Fabrication of Dual Layer Hydrophilic-Hydrophobic Hollow Fiber Membranes ................................................................... 908

Sina Bonyadi, Tai Shung Chung

Nasicon Membrane Electrolytic Technology for the Production of Sodium Hypochlorite .................................................................................................................................... 909

Justin Pendleton, Shekar Balagopal, Vinod Malhotra, Alain Bergeron

Sodium Removal From Contaminated Waste Streams by Nasicon Membrane Electrolysis ...................................................................................................................................... 910

John J. Watkins, Justin Pendleton, Shekar Balagopal

Theoretical Modeling of Phenolic Wastewater Treatment in a Hollow Fiber Biofilm Reactor ............................................................................................................................................. 911

Haluk Beyenal

Membrane Bioreactor System for Purification of Groundwaters Contaminated With Petroleum Hydrocarbons ...................................................................................................... 912

Varadarajan Ravindran, Massoud Pirbazari

Modeling of a Fluidised Bed Batch Crystallizer........................................................................... 914Akanksha Chaudhary, Vinod K. Srivastava, Kuldeep Kumar

Separation of M-Xylene from the Mixed Xylenes by Distillative Freezing................................. 921Lie-Ding Shiau, Chun-Ching Wen

Optimization of a Crystallization Process to Produce a High Purity Secondary Metabolite Intermediate .................................................................................................................. 922

Rebecca A. Chmielowski, Jennifer M. Pollard, Mark Brower, Kent Goklen

Operation Alternative and Control of a Stirred Tank Continuous Isothermic Crystallizer ....................................................................................................................................... 923

O. Velázquez-Camilo, E. Bolaños-Reynoso, J. J. Álvarez-Ramírez, O. Xaca-Xaca

A New Recrystallization Method for Nitroguanidine ................................................................... 924Zhixiong Cha

Application of Dynamic Regulation Profiles of Vacuum Pressure in Batch Crystallization of Cane Sugar ........................................................................................................ 925

E. Bolaños-Reynoso, C. Santiago-de Jesus, O. Velázquez-Camilo, P. A. Quintana-Hernández

Evaporation-Based Microfluidic Platforms for Membrane Protein Crystallization .................. 928Sarah L. Perry, Sameer Talreja, C.F. Zukoski, P.J.A. Kenis

Pseudopolymorphic Forms of Sodium Naproxen ....................................................................... 929Krystle J. Chavez, Ronald W. Rousseau

Investigating the Crystallization Mechanism of Amorphous Budesonide and Salbutamol Sulfate.......................................................................................................................... 930

Daniel J. Burnett, Frank Thielmann

Effects of Organic Compounds On the Fractional Evaporative Crystallization of Hanford Waste Solution ................................................................................................................. 931

George Dumont, Laurent Nassif, Ronald W. Rousseau

High Zeolite Loading Mixed Matrix Membranes .......................................................................... 932Ryan T. Adams, William J. Koros

Sorption and Diffusion of Organic Vapors in Mixed Matrices Based on Teflon AF2400 and Fumed Silica............................................................................................................... 933

Lelio Basile, Maria Chiara Ferrari, Maria Grazia De Angelis, Timothy C. Merkel, Giulio C. Sarti

Layered Silicate by Amh-3 Intercalation and Its Use in Nanocomposite Membranes for Gas Separation..................................................................................................... 944

Sunho Choi, Joaquin Coronas, Edgar Jordan, Weontae Oh, Sankar Nair, Frank Onorato, Daniel F. Shantz, Michael Tsapatsis

Formation of Isotropic Microporous Mixed Matrix (Zeotips) Membranes................................. 945Caleb V. Funk, Bonnie L. Beavers, Douglas R. Lloyd

Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Opal Membranes for Chiral Separations.......................................... 946Ilya Zharov

Organic-Mesoporous Inorganic Composite Membranes for Challenging Separations .......... 947Sukjoon Yoo, Seunguk Yeu, Achyuta Teella, Daniel F. Shantz, David M. Ford

Polystyrene Sacrificial Interlayers for the Preparation of Silicon Carbide Membranes .......... 948Bahman Elyassi, Muhammad Sahimi, Theodore T. Tsotsis

Layer-By-Layer Deposition of Permselective C-Oriented-MCM-22/Silica Composite Films ............................................................................................................................. 950

Jungkyu Choi, Michael Tsapatsis

Synthesis and Characterization of Alumina-Ordered Mesoporous Silica Hybrid Membranes ...................................................................................................................................... 951

Sukjoon Yoo, David M. Ford, Seunguk Yeu, Daniel F. Shantz

Permeation in Mesoporous Silica-Anodized Alumina Composite Membranes........................ 952Aniket Sonalkar, Dr. Orhan Talu

Synthesis and Properties of High-Silica Sodalite and Deca-Dodecasil 3R Membranes Grown on a-Alumina Supports ................................................................................. 953

Zhenkun Zheng, Vadim V. Guliants

Screening of Nanoporous Membranes for CO2 Separations Using Atomically-Detailed Simulations ...................................................................................................................................... 954

Seda Keskin, Haibin Chen, Sang eun Jee, David S. Sholl

New Insights Into the Ideal Cascade Theory for Membrane Separation Processes ................ 955Rugved Pathare, Rakesh Agrawal

Energy Minimization Using Electrodeionization: Organic Acid Production and Separation........................................................................................................................................ 957

Jamie A. Hestekin, Heath Himstedt, Betty Phansiri, Nicole Thomas

Gas Separation Membrane Opportunities to Capture Greenhouse Gases............................... 958Pushpinder S. Puri

Design Optimization and Validation of a Solid State, Electrochemical Oxygen Compressor ..................................................................................................................................... 959

Jie Bai, Merrill A. Wilson, Kent Hutchings, Raymond Cutler

Staged Membrane Systems for Hydrogen Recovery from H2/CO2 Mixtures............................. 960Santosh A. Sonalkar, G. Glenn Lipscomb

CO2 Selective Membranes for Carbon Capture in Water-Gas-Shift Reactions......................... 961Virginie C. Feuillade, Wim G. Haije

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