The Road to Success: How to Manage Growth The Grant Thorton LLP Guide for Entrepreneurs

If you want to drive your company toward manageable, unlimited growth, The Road to Success is the only way to go.

GRANT THORNTON LLP is the sixth-largest U.S. accounting and management consulting firm, with more than 2,800 partners and staff in 48 U.S. locations. MENDY KWESTEL is a partner and the Director of Entrepreneurial Services for Grant Thornton's New York area offices. MICHAEL S. PRESTON was Management Consulting Partner in the New York office of Grant Thornton LLP. He is currently a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. GARY A. PLASTER is a partner of Management Consulting for Grant Thornton LLP and is the National Practice Leader for the Grant Thornton Strategic Consultancy. 02 Wiley Imprint Code List JW Wiley John Wiley & Sons 19980605 1997 01 000 01 228.5 mm 02 154.5 mm 03 15.700 mm 08 13.92 oz John Wiley & Sons IP 50 01 T 24.95 3527284850 03 3527284850 BB Membrane Technology 1 B01 Suzana Pereira Nunes Nunes, Suzana Pereira Suzana Pereira Nunes 2 B01 Klaus-Viktor Peinemann Peinemann, Klaus-Viktor Klaus-Viktor Peinemann GKSS Forschungszentrum, Geesthacht, Germany eng 314 SCI013060 2.3 01 Membrane Technology - a clean and energy saving alternative to traditional/conventional processes.<br> <br> Developed from a useful laboratory technique to a commercial separation technology, today it has widespread and rapidly expanding use in the chemical industry. It has established applications in areas such as hydrogen separation and recovery of organic vapors from process gas streams, and selective transport of organic solvents, and it is opening new perspectives for catalytic conversion in membrane reactors. Membrane technology provides a unique solution for industrial waste treatment and for controlled production of valuable chemicals.<br> <br> This book outlines several established applications of membranes in the chemical industry, reviews the available membranes and membrane processes for the field, and discusses the huge potential of this technology in chemical processes. <br> <br> Each chapter has been written by an international leading expert with extensive industrial experience in the field. 04 02 List of Contributors. <P> MEMBRANE MATERIALS AND MEMBRANE PREPARATION. <P> Introduction. <P> Membrane Market. <P> Membrane Preparation. <P> Presently Available Membranes for Liquid Separation. <P> Surface Modification of Membranes. <P> Gas Separation with Membranes. <P> CURRENT APPLICATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES. <P> The Separation of Organic Vapors from Gas Streams by Means of Membranes (K. Ohlrogge & K. Stnrken). <P> Gas Separation Membrane Applications (D. Stookey). <P> State-of-Art of Pervaporation Processes in the Chemical Industry (H. Brnschke). <P> Nanofiltration of Charged Organic Molecules in Aqueous and Non-aqueous Solvents: Separation Results and Mechanisms (J. Hestekin, <I>et al.</I>). <P> Industrial Membrane Reactors (M. Kemmere & J. Keurentjes). <P> Electromembrane Processes (T. Davis, <I>et al.</I>). <P> Membrane Technology in the Chemical Industry: Future Directions (R. Baker). <P> Subject Index.