Gas Absorption in Dispersions, Suspensions, and Emulsions: Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer

Call for Papers

The use of more complex reactors/contactors has been the aim of different studies during the last few years involving an important number of research teams of different countries. Mainly, the more conventional absorption processes have been evolved to gas transfer operation that involve the use of liquid phases with a higher complexity (such as presence of solid phases or immiscible liquid ones) due to the presence of these substances in the nature of the phases involved in the process or with the aim to enhance the mass transfer rate.

The knowledge and understanding of the different phenomena that could affect the global gas-liquid absorption process (taking into account the mass transfer and the hydrodynamics) are a very important starting point to carry out these processes at an industrial level.

For these reasons, we invite researchers to contribute review articles that include the work developed in the topics of the special issue in the last years, as well as original papers that will stimulate the advance in the knowledge to understand the mass transfer in this kind of complex systems, implementation, and scale-up.

The editors of this special issue are mainly interested in the gas-liquid mass transfer processes from the point of view of hydrodynamics into the gas-liquid contactors, and mass transfer attending the understanding of this process and the consequences upon equipment design and scale-up. Potential topics for this issue include but are not limited to:

• Mass transfer and hydrodynamics in absorption processes that involve the presence of three phases (e.g., the presence of solids (with or without chemical reaction) or nonmiscible liquid phases)

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijce/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• José M. Navaza, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Galicia, Spain

Guest Editors

• Annabelle Couvert, Laboratory of Chemical Sciences, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, 35708 Rennes, France
• Diego Gómez-Díaz, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Galicia, Spain
• José A. Teixeira, Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal