Water and beyond: Expanding the spectrum of large-scale energy efficient separation processes

AIChE Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2624-2633

  Koros, William J ^a   Lively, Ryan P ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Algenol Biofuels   (United States)

Author keywords

Materials; Membranes; Separations; Sorbents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864923627     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.13888     Document Type: Article

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