Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Editor-in-Chief

Dr Eva Srensen, University College London, UK

Editorial Board
Editorial Consultant Editorial Consultant Distillation and Absorption Professor John Perkins Professor Stephen Richardson, Imperial College London, UK Professor Elisabetta Brunazzi, University of Pisa, Italy Professor Ryszard Pohorecki, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Professor Jens-Uwe Repke, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

Fluid Flow

Professor Barry Azzopardi, University of Nottingham, UK Professor Jir i Draho, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic Professor J.B. Joshi, University of Mumbai, India Professor Paul Mavros, Aristotle University, Greece Professor Mark Simmons, University of Birmingham, UK Professor Catherine Xuereb, ENSIACET, Toulouse, France

Heat and Mass Transfer

Professor Zdzislaw Pakowski, Technical University of Ldz, Poland Dr Zhifa Sun, University of Otago, New Zealand Professor Geoffrey Evans, The University of Newcastle, Australia Professor Ron Zevenhoven, bo Akademi University, Finland

Materials Processing and Product Development

Professor Crspulo Gallegos, Universidad de Huelva, Spain Dr Kieran Looney, DuPont Teijin Films UK Ltd, UK Dr Juan Carlos Ruiz-Morales, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain Professor Gavin Walker, University of Limerick, Ireland Dr Arne Fredheim, Statoil, Norway Professor Geoffrey Maitland, Imperial College London, UK

Oil and Natural Gas Production

Particle Technology

Professor Mojtaba Ghadiri, University of Leeds, UK Professor Pierre Guigon, Universit de Technologie de Compigne, France Professor Alan Jones, University College London, UK Professor Massimo Poletto, University of Salerno, Italy Professor Richard Williams, University of Birmingham, UK

Pharmaceutical Engineering

Dr Zoltan Nagy, Loughborough University, UK Professor Ka Ming Ng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Dr Lanry Yung Lin Yue, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Process Systems Engineering

Dr Salvador Garcia-Munoz, Pzer Worldwide Research & Development, USA Professor Andrzej Kraslawski, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Professor Zdravko Kravanja, University of Maribor, Slovenia Dr Andreas Linninger, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Dr Philip Lutze,TU Dortmund University, Germany Professor Michael Piovoso, Penn State University, USA Professor Nilay Shah, Imperial College London, UK Dr John Dennis, University of Cambridge, UK Professor Asterios Gavriilidis, University College London, UK Dr Franois Lapicque, CNRS-ENSIC, Nancy, France Professor Thierry Meyer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Professor Nikos Papayannakos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Professor Neal Tai-Shung Chung, National University of Singapore, Singapore Professor Andrew Livingston, Imperial College London, UK Professor Marianne Nystrm, Lappeenranta University, Finland Professor Geoff Stevens, University of Melbourne, Australia Professor Hallvard Svendsen, NTNU, Norway Professor Paul Webley, University of Melbourne, Australia

Reaction Engineering

Separation Processes

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