A predictive model for permeation flux in a membrane reactor: Aspects of esterification

Separation Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 433-452

  Kasaini, Henry ^a   Malherbe, Lorraine ^a   Everson, Raymond ^a   Keizer, Klaas ^a   Neomagus, Hein ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BINARY MIXTURES; COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFUSION; ESTERIFICATION; PERVAPORATION; WATER;

BUTYL ACETATE; PERMEATION FLUX; PERVAPORATION FLUX;

POLYMERIC MEMBRANES;

ACETIC ACID; BUTANOL; POLYMER;

MEMBRANE; PERMEATION; PREDICTION MODEL; REACTOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ENERGY; ESTERIFICATION; MEMBRANE REACTOR; PERVAPORATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 13844266816     PISSN: 01496395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/SS-200042490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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