Integrated design of a gas separation system for the upgrade of crude SNG with membranes

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1391-1404

  Gassner, Martin ^a   Baciocchi, Renato ^b,c   Maréchal, François ^a   Mazzotti, Marco ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon capture; Gas separation; Membranes; Modelling; Process integration; SNG

Indexed keywords

CARBON CAPTURE; GAS SEPARATION; MODELLING; PROCESS INTEGRATION; SNG;

BIOMASS; DESIGN; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS INDUSTRY; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS DESIGN; SEPARATION;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

EID: 70349486905     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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