Influence of adsorption on the diffusion selectivity for mixture permeation across mesoporous membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 369, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 545-549

  Krishna, Rajamani ^a,b   van Baten, Jasper M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Diffusion selectivity; Knudsen diffusivity; Mesopore; Self diffusivity

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION STRENGTH; DIFFUSION SELECTIVITY; DIFFUSIVITIES; KNUDSEN; KNUDSEN DIFFUSIVITY; MESOPORE; MESOPOROUS MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; N-BUTANE; N-HEXANE; SELF-DIFFUSIVITY; SILICA MESOPORES; MIXTURE PERMEATIONS;

ADSORPTION; ARGON; BINARY MIXTURES; BUTANE; ETHANE; HEXANE; KRYPTON; METHANE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROPANE; SILICA; DIFFUSION;

DIFFUSION; ADSORPTION;

BUTANE; ETHANE; HEXANE; METHANE; PROPANE; SILICON DIOXIDE; POROUS POLYMER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MESOPOROUS MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; POROSITY;

EID: 79251639092     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2010.12.042     Document Type: Article

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