Effect of operating conditions and membrane quality on the separation performance of composite silicalite-1 membranes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4071-4083

  Van De Graaf, Jolinde M ^a,b   Van Der Bijl, Elbert ^a   Stol, Arnoud ^a   Kapteijn, Freek ^a   Moulijn, Jacob A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane; Separation

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; BUTANE; ETHANE; ETHYLENE; HYDROGEN; ISOMERS; METHANE; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROPYLENE; SEPARATION; SILICON COMPOUNDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; SILICALITE;

PERMSELECTIVE MEMBRANES;

MEMBRANE; SEPARATION;

EID: 0032194279     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie980250c     Document Type: Article

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