
Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water Processes
Description
Key Features
- Summarizes fundamental properties of water for engineering applications
- Compares process and reactor designs
- Evaluates processes from thermodynamic, economic, and social impact viewpoints
Readership
Chemical Engineers, professionals in research and development in chemical industries, environmental and energy-related industries; process engineers, physical and geochemists, physicists in applied research and for students in these areas
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Abstract
- Chapter 2: Properties of Pure Water
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Structure of H2O
- 2.3 Phase Diagram
- 2.4 Thermodynamic Properties
- 2.5 Transport Properties
- 2.6 Electrical Properties
- 2.7 Miscellaneous Properties of Water
- Chapter 3: Properties of Mixtures with Water
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Properties of Mixtures
- 3.3 Phase Behavior of Mixtures with Water
- 3.4 Water and Nonelectrolytes
- 3.5 Water and Electrolytes
- 3.6 Water and Metal Oxides
- 3.7 Water and Nonvolatile Electrolytes (Salts)
- Chapter 4: Heat Transfer
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Heat Transfer to Pure Water
- 4.3 Heat Transfer in the Critical and Supercritical Region (Region IV)
- 4.4 Condensation
- 4.5 Heat Transfer for Flow Through Beds of Particles
- 4.6 Heat Transfer Coefficients in Heat Exchangers
- Chapter 5: Reactions in Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Chemical Equilibrium and Chemical Kinetics
- 5.3 Specific Reactions in Supercritical Water as a Reaction Medium
- Chapter 6: Extraction Processes
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Fundamentals of the Extraction Process
- 6.3 Soil Cleaning
- 6.4 Various Extractions from Mineral Substrates
- 6.5 Separation of Organic Compounds from Bone Material
- 6.6 Extraction of Natural Substances
- Chapter 7: Processing of Fuel Materials with Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Processing of Coal with Water
- 7.3 Oil Shale Conversion with Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water
- 7.4 Oil Sands Processing with Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water
- Chapter 8: Processing of Biomass with Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Processing of Plant-Based Monomers with High-Temperature and Supercritical Water
- 8.3 Processing of Natural Polymers with High-Temperature and Supercritical Water
- 8.4 Processing of Mixtures of Natural Compounds of Biomass in High-Temperature and Supercritical Water
- 8.5 Biomass Liquefaction
- 8.6 Biomass Gasification
- Chapter 9: Reactions of Synthetic Polymers with Water
- Abstract
- 9.1 Condensation Polymers
- 9.2 Polyethylene
- 9.3 Addition Polymerization Polymers
- 9.4 Various Polymers
- Chapter 10: Oxidation in High-Temperature and Supercritical Water
- Abstract
- 10.1 General Aspects of Oxidation in Water
- 10.2 Wet Air Oxidation
- 10.3 Supercritical Water Oxidation
- 10.4 Hydrothermal Flames
- Chapter 11: Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water Processing of Inorganic Substances
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction: What is Hydrothermal Processing?
- 11.2 Principle of Hydrothermal Processing
- 11.3 Crystal Growth
- 11.4 Synthesis of New Phases and Compounds
- 11.5 Hydrothermal Preparation of Materials, Production of Fine Particles, Impregnation, Coatings
- Chapter 12: Corrosion in Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Types of Corrosion in Hydrothermal and Supercritical Water
- 12.3 Solution Parameters Influencing Corrosion
- 12.4 Measures Against Corrosion
- 12.5 Summary
- Chapter 13: Process Components and Processes
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Reactors
- 13.3 Experimental Processes
- 13.4 Production Processes
- Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 604
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2014
- Published: April 4, 2014
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444594136
- eBook ISBN: 9780444594181
About the Author
Gerd Brunner

GERD H. BRUNNER
(Prof. em. of Chemical Engineering)
Institute for Thermal Separation Processes
Hamburg University of Technology
(Institut für Thermische Verfahrenstechnik Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg), Eissendorfer Strasse 38, D-21073 Hamburg, Germany.
Phone: 0049-40-42878-2007
FAX: 0049-40-42878-4072
e-mail: brunner@tuhh.de
Academic qualifications:
- 1968 degree in Chemical Engineering by Technische Universität München, Germany.
- 1972 doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) from Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
- 1978 Habilitation (Dr.-Ing. habil.) in Technical Chemistry from Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
- 1980 Assistant Professor at Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1982 Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg.
- 2008 retired from active service.
Industrial experience:
- 1982 - 1990 Senior researcher Siemens-KWU (non-nuclear energy activities), from 1983 as consultant.
- 1989 - now: Consultant to F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (supercritical fluids application)
- 1982 - now: Consultant to many industrial companies in the field of Supercritical Fluids.
Honorary positions:
- Chair Member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
- Honorary Professor of Chemical Engineering, (Dr. h.c.), Technical University Sofia, 2008
Professional Position
1982 - March 2008 Full Professor, Head of Subdepartment Thermische Verfahrenstechnik
Various position in administration of research and teaching at the Hamburg University of Technology
Actual position:
Prof. em. of Chemical Engineering
Regional Editor of The Journal of Supercritical Fluids
Scientific interests
- Phase equilibria at elevated pressures and temperatures in complex systems
- Transfer processes at elevated pressures and temperatures in complex systems
- Separation processes with supercritical gases, i.e. extraction from solids, countercurrent separations, separation with chromatographic methods (SFC)
- Simulated-moving-bed-separations
- Hydrodynamic behaviour of countercurrent columns
- Pyrolysis of organic compounds
- Hydrolysis of bio-polymers
- Supercritical water: destruction of waste, cleaning of soil
- Enzymes at high pressures, in particular for separation processes
- Electro-Ultra-filtration for biotechnological systems
- Membrane separations of gases at high pressures
- Biodiesel, bio-refinery
Publications:
About 290 publications, including about 15 patents.
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