Visualization and modelling of the polarization layer and a reversible adsorption process in PEG-10000 dead-end ultrafiltration

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 342, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 279-290

  Fernandez Sempere J ^a   Ruiz Bevia F ^a   Garcia Algado P ^a   Salcedo Diaz R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Concentration profiles; Holographic interferometry; Modelling; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION PROCESS; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; CONSTANT PRESSURES; CONVECTION DIFFUSION; DEAD-END ULTRAFILTRATION; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEED CONCENTRATION; MEMBRANE SURFACE; MODELLING; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PERMEATE FLUX; REVERSIBLE ADSORPTION;

ADSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPERIMENTS; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY;

MACROGOL;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 68049142962     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.06.046     Document Type: Article

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