Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Editor-in-Chief: Eva Sørensen University College London, UK, Editorial Consultants: John Perkins (Honorary Editor) Department for Business, Innovation and Skill (BIS), Her Majesty's Government, UK, Stephen Richardson (Executive Editor) Imperial College London, UK, Subject Area Editors: , Distillation and Absorption: Elisabetta Brunazzi The University of Pisa, Italy, Ryszard Pohorecki Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, Jens Uwe-Repke TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, Fluid Flow Barry Azzopardi University of Nottingham, UK, Jiri Drahoš Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic, J.B. Joshi University of Mumbai, India, Paul Mavros Aristotle University, Greece, Mark Simmons University of Birmingham, UK, Catherine Xuereb ENSIACET, Toulouse, France, Heat and Mass Transfer: Krishna Nigam Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, Zdzislaw Pakowski Technical University of Lódz, Poland, Zhifa Sun University of Otago, New Zealand, Materials Processing and Product Development: Críspulo Gallegos Universidad de Huelva, Spain, Kieran Looney DuPont Teijin Films UK Ltd, UK, Oil and Natural Gas Production: Arne Fredheim Statoil, Norway, Geoffrey Maitland Imperial College London, UK, Bahman Tohidi Heriot-Watt University, UK, Particle Technology: Mojtaba Ghadiri University of Leeds, UK, Pierre Guigon Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, Alan Jones University College London, UK, Massimo Poletto University of Salerno, Italy, Richard Williams University of Leeds, UK, Pharmaceutical Engineering Zoltan Nagy Loughborough University, UK, Zdravko Kravanja University of Maribor, Slovenia, Ka Ming Ng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Lanry Yung Lin Yue National University of Singapore, Singapore, Process Systems Engineering Andrzej Kraslawski Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, Andreas Linninger University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, Julian Morris University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, Michael Piovoso Penn State University, USA, Nilay Shah Imperial College London, UK, Reaction and Engineering: John Dennis Univeristy of Cambridge, UK, Asterios Gavriilidis University College London, UK, Francois Lapicque CNRS-ENSIC, Nancy, France, Thierry Meyer Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, Separation Processes: Tai-Shung Chung National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Andrew Livingston Imperial College London, UK, Marianne Nyström Lappeenranta University, Finland, Geoff Stevens University of Melbourne, Australia, Hallvard F. Svendsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, Paul Webley University of Melbourne, Australia