Simulation of structural and permeation properties of multi-layer ceramic membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 243, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 133-141

  Kikkinides, E S ^a   Stoitsas, K A ^a   Zaspalis, V T ^a   Burganos, V N ^b  

^a Centre for Research Technology Hellas   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Monte Carlo; Permeability

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MICROFILTRATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFILTRATION; VISCOUS FLOW;

KNUDSEN PERMEABILITY; MOMENTUM EQUATION; MULTI-LAYER CERAMIC MEMBRANES; VISCOUS FLOW PERMEABILITY;

PERMSELECTIVE MEMBRANES;

ALUMINUM OXIDE;

CERAMICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CERAMICS; EXPERIMENTATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE RECONSTITUTION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICROFILTRATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 4544324496     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2004.06.019     Document Type: Article

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