Written by a pioneers who developed the original process to manufacture carbon in the United States, this book is considered essential reading for professionals involved in the removal from air or water by using the most important single pollution control product ever invented. Contents: Part I Introduction - Chapter 1: History and Market Review - Chapter 2: Elementary Aspects of Adsorption - Part II Application To Industrial and Environmental Liquid Systems - Chapter 3: Basic Aspects and Concepts -Chapter 4: Interpretation and Evaluation of Adsorption Data -Chapter 5: Adsorption-Desorption Operations -Chapter 6: Unit Operations -Chapter 7: Representative Industrial Applications -Chapter 8: Purification Domestic and Industrial Waste Waters - Part III Applications to Other Systems - Chapter 9: Gas and Vapor Phase Application -Chapter 10: Diverse Applications - Part IV Preparation of Activated Carbon and Physico-Chemical Properties - Chapter 11: Manufacture of Activated Carbon -Chapter 12: Regeneration -Chapter 13: Nature of Activated Carbon -Chapter 14: Contact Catalysis - Part V Biochemical Properties - Chapter 15: Biochemical Aspects of Activated Carbon - Part VI Laboratory Procedures - Chapter 16: Adsorption of Gases and Vapors Laboratory Procedures - Chapter 17: Laboratory Adsorption Test Procedure for Liquid Systems -Chapter 18: General Properties of Activated Carbons - Part VII - Chapter 19: Final Gleanings - Index