Recent Advances in Adsorption Processes for Environmental Protection and Security

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on RecentAdvancesin Adsorption Processes for Environmental Protection and Security was held during, September 912, 2006, at Hotel Salyut, Kiev, Ukraine. There were 45 participants from 12 NATO countries, 8 Eligible Partner and Mediterranean dialog home and one key speaker from Switzerland. We hope that everyone went home with excellent memories and new ideas to enhance environmental protection and security through adsorption science and technology. The purpose of the Workshop was to bring together researchers and en gineers working in adsorption related fields, to share knowledge on the latest advances on adsorption processes for environmental security and protection, as well as to cross link and disseminate to the scientific community the main results and achievements of recent NATO SfP projects on environmental security and protection. Topics covered by the Workshop include recent theoretical and experi mental developments on environmental adsorption, adsorption processes, as well as synthesis and tailoring of novel adsorbents, including the assessment of materials and processes. The invited lectures provided a comprehensive report on adsorption and colloids, carbon materials and adsorbents for various industrial applications, and ecological safety and antiterrorism. Because rapidly developing areas in nanotechnology for fine chemistry, air quality, and environmental protection, are based on the synthesis and modificationof the adsorbents, special at tention was given to synthesis and chemical tailoring of porous materials to achieve desired properties as adsorbents and separation media.

Adsorption science and technology Environmental protection Synthesis and chemical tailoring

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Extension of Dubinin's Theory to Adsorption from Aqueous Solutions.- Applications of Immersion Calorimetry in Dubinin's Theory and in Electrochemistry.- Adsorption on Activated Carbon: One Underlying Mechanism?.- Adsorption of Organic Vapour Pollutants on Activated Carbon.- Adsorption Behaviour of Lignosulphonates on the Interfaces WaterInorganic/Organic Solids, Used for Paper Production.- Adsorption Properties of Polymer Adsorbents.- SAXS Characterization of Solid/Vapor Interfaces in Polymer-Based Microporous Carbons With Different Surface Chemistry.- Co-Adsorption of Cesium Chloride Molecules and Thulium Atoms on 2DGF on Re.- Controlling Porosity to Improve Activated Carbon Applications.- Liquid-Phase Adsorption/Oxidation of Sulfur-Containing Species by Activated Carbon.- Adsorption Properties of Functional Silicas Towards Some Toxic Metal Ions in Water Solutions.- Waste Conversion into Activated Carbon for Heavy Metal Removal from Waste Water.- Modeling Carbon Mask Adsorptive Filters.- Adsorption Processes in Gas Mask Filter Canisters: Practical Aspects, New Materials and Modeling.- Hydrogen Adsorption on Carbon Materials at High Pressures and Different Temperatures.- Adsorbed Natural Gas Technology.