Artificial Organ Engineering / by Maria Cristina Annesini, Luigi Marrelli, Vincenzo Piemonte, Luca Turchetti.

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Annesini, Maria Cristina [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2017Edition: 1st ed. 2017Description: XV, 265 p.: 107illustrations, 26 illustrations in color. 25 cmContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781447164432

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Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:

571.4 23 ANN-A 2017 790472

Contents:

1. Diffusion -- 2. Mass transfer coefficient -- 3. Membrane operations -- 4. Adsorption -- 5. Bioreactors.

Summary: Artificial organs may be considered as small-scale process plants, in which heat, mass and momentum transfer operations and, possibly, chemical transformations are carried out. This book proposes a novel analysis of artificial organs based on the typical bottom-up approach used in process engineering. Starting from a description of the fundamental physico-chemical phenomena involved in the process, the whole system is rebuilt as an interconnected ensemble of elemental unit operations. Each artificial organ is presented with a short introduction provided by expert clinicians. Devices commonly used in clinical practice are reviewed and their performance is assessed and compared by using a mathematical model based approach. Whilst mathematical modelling is a fundamental tool for quantitative descriptions of clinical devices, models are kept simple to remain focused on the essential features of each process. Postgraduate students and researchers in the field of chemical and biomedical engineering will find that this book provides a novel and useful tool for the analysis of existing devices and, possibly, the design of new ones. This approach will also be useful for medical researchers who want to get a deeper insight into the basic working principles of artificial organs.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Reference	Faculty of CS & IT Library Book Cart	Book	571.4 ANN-A 2017 790472 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Not For Loan (Restricted Access)		790472

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1. Diffusion -- 2. Mass transfer coefficient -- 3. Membrane operations -- 4. Adsorption -- 5. Bioreactors.

Artificial organs may be considered as small-scale process plants, in which heat, mass and momentum transfer operations and, possibly, chemical transformations are carried out. This book proposes a novel analysis of artificial organs based on the typical bottom-up approach used in process engineering. Starting from a description of the fundamental physico-chemical phenomena involved in the process, the whole system is rebuilt as an interconnected ensemble of elemental unit operations. Each artificial organ is presented with a short introduction provided by expert clinicians. Devices commonly used in clinical practice are reviewed and their performance is assessed and compared by using a mathematical model based approach. Whilst mathematical modelling is a fundamental tool for quantitative descriptions of clinical devices, models are kept simple to remain focused on the essential features of each process. Postgraduate students and researchers in the field of chemical and biomedical engineering will find that this book provides a novel and useful tool for the analysis of existing devices and, possibly, the design of new ones. This approach will also be useful for medical researchers who want to get a deeper insight into the basic working principles of artificial organs.

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