Carbon Capture 2012th Edition

I bought this book a few months back, and was very pleased with the flow of materials and fundamentals of chemical engineering principles applied in solving problems. The book is very lucid to read. In these days of process simulators, young engineers become skilled too quickly in how to navigate across a simulator to get the job done. This is an excellent book for the young engineers to understand the simulation results or to develop the will to doubt such results. This is also a good book for those involved in Sustainability.Dilip K Das, P.E., FAIChE; Bayer CropScience, Kansas City, MO

However, if you are not taking a college course you may find it hard to use in real life applications. I was hoping for something I could take action with as an averagely educated consumer. Glad I could help support a cause, though.

I am a researcher in Carbon Capture for a large company that makes Power plants. My background is in gas turbine and boiler R&D with good knowledge of fluid dynamics and heat transfer, and I was quite overwhelmed when confronted with the chemistry of carbon capture and release with amines. Similarly our chemists in the down stream capture technology did not know enough about the integration with the steam cycle and flue gas of a power plant. The sulphur content of the flue gas has a large degradation effect on the amines and the fast time constants associated with grid dynamics are very different than gas treatment from the usual amine applications. In addition, the biology associated with attempting to use carbonic anhydrase to speed up the reactions is also out of the experience range of most Power R&D people. Prof. Wilcox's book is the first time I have seen a unified treatment of the various methods of Carbon Capture in a clear manner. It is comprehensive enough to be an advanced undergraduate and graduate school text book with numerous examples; yet it is detailed enough to be a source of information on the latest work in this wide field of research. I believe that " Carbon Capture " will become a standard reference book and a bible for researchers and educated readers who are interested in the field.

The book will tackle the issue of ccs from scratch till most recent solutions. It's also not complicated, I bought when I was studying Msc in chemical engineering.

I am an engineer in the research and development group for a large utility company and have been working on various post-combustion CO2 capture projects that include amine, solid sorbents, and membrane technologies over the past four years. I have referenced this book "Carbon Capture" many times to enhance my knowledge and understanding of carbon capture processes and have found it to be a great asset. The overall organization of the book is practical and concise. The examples in each chapter along with information in the appendices proved to be helpful and informative. This book provides enough general high level information that can be used for beginner researchers or undergraduate level students to provide a good foundation of carbon capture principles. Also, the book provides a more comprehensive in-depth technical insight into carbon capture principles that can be utilized by advanced expert researchers or graduate level students. Of all the books I have read in the area of carbon capture, I believe this one will become the standard to which all others are compared. If you are working in the field of carbon capture at any level or just interested in learning about this topic, I would highly recommend this book above all others.

As a student entering the nascent Carbon Capture and Sequestration field, having an encyclopedic reference has been paramount to my learning. Professor Wilcox’s text provides a comprehensive, succinct, and unbiased overview of both current and potential carbon capture technologies. Furthermore, Wilcox devotes ample exegesis to the underlying physics and chemistry within the absorption, adsorption, and membrane CO2 capture processes (as well as the compression of CO2). Underpinning the text are references at the end of each chapter both providing decades of supplementary research and proving Wilcox’s devotion to the great potential of Carbon Capture.

If you want to know about the process of carbon capture, you have to purchase this book. It has a review of the principal methods employed for carbon capture, mechanisms and the ultimate technologies employed by industry... It's a good deal.

As an engineer working on carbon capture and storage projects, I have turned to Carbon Capture by Prof. Wilcox often to introduce me to new topics or refresh my understanding of fundamentals. The work is a comprehensive treatment of carbon capture methods as well as other important considerations such as compression and transport. It is chock full of very detailed and helpful tables and figures as well as worked problems which show the application of methods. Even the long list of references are very helpful. I have not seen any other work that approaches the completeness of this book; and since in carbon capture the combination of many actively researched methods of capture with the complexity of any one system begs for a work like this that can synthesize the great accumulated engineering knowledge on the subject (from the pioneering work of the first half of the 20th century to the cutting edge research of today), the value of this book can hardly be overstated. It is a source that continually proves its worth.