CFD simulation of water removal from water/ethylene glycol mixtures by pervaporation

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-67

  Rezakazemi, Mashallah ^a   Shahverdi, Mahnaz ^a   Shirazian, Saeed ^a   Mohammadi, Toraj ^a   Pak, Afshin ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

CFD; Ethylene glycol; Numerical simulation; Pervaporation; PVA membrane

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CFD; CFD SIMULATIONS; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; DENSE MEMBRANE; DEVELOPED MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FEED FLOW RATE; LIQUID MIXTURE; MEMBRANE MODULE; MODEL EQUATIONS; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERMEATE FLUX; POROUS MEMBRANES; PVA MEMBRANE; RESISTANCE-IN-SERIES MODEL; SIMULATION RESULT; WATER REMOVAL;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEWATERING; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; EVAPORATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; PERVAPORATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79952439920     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.12.034     Document Type: Article

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