Analysis of hollow fibre membrane systems for multicomponent gas separation

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 332-347

  Khalilpour, Rajab ^a   Abbas, Ali ^a   Lai, Zhiping ^b   Pinnau, Ingo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Design; Gas membrane; Hollow fibre; Modelling; Multicomponent gas; Natural gas sweetening

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION METHODOLOGIES; DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; FEED GAS; GAS FEED; GAS MEMBRANES; GAS SEPARATIONS; GAS SWEETENINGS; GAUSS-SEIDEL METHOD; HIGH SELECTIVITY; HOLLOW FIBRE; HOLLOW-FIBRE MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE SYSTEM; MULTI-STAGE; MULTICOMPONENTS; OPTIMAL OPERATION; PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS;

DESIGN; MODELS; NATURAL GAS;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

EID: 84872818889     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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