Organic vapour transport in glassy perfluoropolymer membranes: A simple semi-quantitative approach to analyze clustering phenomena by time lag measurements

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 367, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 141-151

  Jansen, Johannes Carolus ^a   Friess, Karel ^b   Drioli, Enrico ^a  

^a INSTITUTE ON MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Clustering; Diffusion; Gas vapour transport; Perfluoropolymer membrane; Time lag

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL; ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION; APROTIC SOLVENTS; CLUSTER SIZES; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING PHENOMENA; CO-EXISTENCE; CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT DIFFUSION; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; CURVE SHAPE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FRACTIONAL FREE VOLUME; NEW APPROACHES; NONLINEAR LEAST-SQUARES OPTIMIZATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PENETRANT MOLECULES; PENETRATION THEORY; PERFLUOROPOLYMERS; PERMANENT GAS; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE; SINGLE DIFFUSION; SINGLE MOLECULE; SORPTION DATA; TIME LAG; VAPOUR TRANSPORT;

ACETONE; CURVE FITTING; DICHLOROMETHANE; DIFFUSION; ETHANOL; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; METHANOL; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; SORPTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VAPORS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ALCOHOL; METHANOL; POLITEF;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; GAS TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE FORMATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME; VAPOR;

EID: 78649971298     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2010.10.063     Document Type: Article

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