To introduce the discipline of mass transfer in environmental field and provide the major unit (eg., adsorption process) which environmental engineers and scientists work with and combine the theoretical study and practical applications.

OBJECTIVES To introduce the discipline of mass transfer in environmental field and provide the major unit (eg., adsorption process) which environmental engineers and scientists work with and combine the theoretical study and practical applications. CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Physicochemical evaluation of adsorbents and catalysts 3. Adsorption Equilibria 4. Fundamentals of Diffusion 5. Fundamentals of Mass Transfer 6. Kinetics of Adsorption and catalysis

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