Membrane Engineering: Progress and Potentialities in Gas Separations

Membrane Gas Separation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 279-312

  Brunetti, Adele ^a   Bernardo, Paola ^a   Drioli, Enrico ^a   Barbieri, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amorphous perfluoropolymers for casting asymmetric composite membranes; Applied aspects of membrane gas separation; Carbon molecular sieve membranes and good transport properties; Main industrial applications membrane technology for GS; Materials and membranes employed in GS; Membrane engineering progress and potentialities in gas separations; Membrane process flow of natural gas dehydration plant of PRISM; Membrane process, economical process for high pressure purge gas upgrading; Membrane technology for gas separation (GS) well consolidated technique; Membranes applications in GS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871634059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470665626.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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