Characterisation of organic solvent nanofiltration membranes in multi-component mixtures: Membrane rejection maps and membrane selectivity maps for conceptual process design

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 429, Issue , 2013, Pages 103-120

  Schmidt, Patrick ^a   Köse, Tülay ^a   Lutze, Philip ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Membrane rejection maps; Membrane selectivity maps; Organic solvent nanofiltration; Solubility parameter; Ternary solvent mixtures

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE REJECTION; MEMBRANE SELECTIVITY; ORGANIC SOLVENT NANOFILTRATION; SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS; TERNARY SOLVENT MIXTURE;

BINARY MIXTURES; HEXANE; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; NANOFILTRATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; POLYIMIDES; PROCESS DESIGN; SOLUBILITY; SOLVENTS; TOLUENE;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

2 PROPANOL; HEXANE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; POLYIMIDE; TOLUENE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DISSOLUTION; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NANOFILTER; NANOFILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; SCREENING; SOLUBILITY; SOLUTE; SOLVENT EFFECT;

EID: 84871446628     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.11.031     Document Type: Article

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