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Autore |
Annesini Maria Cristina |
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Titolo |
Artificial Organ Engineering / / by Maria Cristina Annesini, Luigi Marrelli, Vincenzo Piemonte, Luca Turchetti |
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London : , : Springer London : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XV, 265 p. 107 illus., 26 illus. in color.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biomedical engineering |
Clinical biochemistry |
Biochemical engineering |
Biophysics |
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering |
Medical Biochemistry |
Biochemical Engineering |
Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Diffusion -- 2. Mass transfer coefficient -- 3. Membrane operations -- 4. Adsorption -- 5. Bioreactors. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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