Comparative study of sorption and permeation techniques for the determination of heptane and toluene transport in polyethylene membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 338, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 161-174

  Friess, Karel ^a   Jansen, Johannes Carolus ^d   Vopička, Ondřej ^a   Randová, Alena ^a   Hynek, Vladimír ^a   Šípek, Milan ^a   Bartovská, Lidmila ^a   Izák, Pavel ^b   Dingemans, Maarten ^c   Dewulf, Jo ^c   Van Langenhove, Herman ^c   Drioli, Enrico ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTE ON MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clustering; Coupling effect; Permeation; Sorption; VOCs binary mixture

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CONCENTRATION RANGES; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; COUPLING EFFECT; CRYSTALLINITIES; DIFFERENTIAL FLOWS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; HIGH ACTIVITY; HIGH CONCENTRATION; MASS TRANSPORT; MATRIX; MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE; MOLECULAR AGGREGATION; MOLECULAR SHAPES; PERMEATION EXPERIMENTS; PERMEATION TECHNIQUE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYETHYLENE MEMBRANE; POLYMER-SOLVENT INTERACTIONS; PRESSURE INCREASE; SEMICRYSTALLINES; SORPTION EXPERIMENTS; SPECIFIC CONCENTRATION; TIME-DEPENDENT STRUCTURE; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS; TRANSPORT PHENOMENA; VAPOUR PERMEATION; VAPOUR-PHASE; VOCS BINARY MIXTURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION MEASUREMENTS;

BINARY MIXTURES; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPERIMENTS; HEPTANE; SORPTION; THERMOPLASTICS; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

PERMEATION;

HEPTANE; POLYETHYLENE; TOLUENE;

ARTICLE; BIOSORPTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLVENT EFFECT; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER TREATMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 67649246618     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.04.030     Document Type: Article

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