A model for evaporative casting of polymeric membranes incorporating convection due to density changes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 161-172

  Lee, Hanyong ^a   Chaudhuri, Siladitya Ray ^a   Krantz, William B ^b   Hwang, Sun Tak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Convection; Densification; Dry casting; Evaporative casting; Mass transfer model; Membrane formation; Phase inversion

Indexed keywords

DENSIFICATION; EVAPORATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLVENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CONVECTION; EVAPORATIVE CASTING; MASS TRANSFER MODEL; MEMBRANE FORMATION; PHASE INVERSION;

POLYMERIC MEMBRANES;

POLYAMIDE;

DENSIFICATION; EVAPORATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; SOLVENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DRY DEPOSITION; EVAPORATION; MEMBRANE FORMATION; MEMBRANE MODEL; MEMBRANE RECONSTITUTION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER PRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33748799396     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2006.07.032     Document Type: Article

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