Using forward osmosis to teach mass transfer fundamentals to undergraduate chemical engineering students

Desalination

Volumn 312, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-18

  Anastasio, Daniel ^a   R McCutcheon, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration polarization; Forward osmosis; Mass transfer; Membrane separations; Pressure retarded osmosis

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS; CONCENTRATION POLARIZATION; CROSS FLOWS; FEED SOLUTION; FORWARD OSMOSIS; MASS FLOW RATE; MEMBRANE SEPARATION; OPERATING CONDITION; SALT PERMEABILITY; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; MASS TRANSFER; MEMBRANES; SEPARATION;

STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING; MASS TRANSFER; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; PERMEABILITY; SEPARATION; TEACHING;

EID: 84873170711     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2012.10.037     Document Type: Article

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