Description: "The main theme of the book is the application of the surface renewal theory of mass transfer to the areas of gas absorption and membrane filtration. Since its proposal in 1951 to describe mass transfer at a turbulent gas-liquid interface, the surface renewal model has found many applications in fields like chemical engineering, oceanography, and meteorology. Over the past several years, the authors, along with co-workers, have significantly extended the original surface renewal model with a view to using it for the analysis and design of gas-liquid contacting equipment and membrane filters."-- Provided by publisher.