Mixed matrix hollow fiber membranes with enhanced gas permeation properties

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 132, Issue , 2014, Pages 336-345

  Favvas, Evangelos P ^a,b   Stefanopoulos, Konstantinos L ^a   Nolan, John W ^b   Papageorgiou, Sergios K ^a   Mitropoulos, Athanasios Ch ^b   Lairez, Didier ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KAVALA   (Greece)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Functionalized MWCNTs; Gas permeation; Mixed Matrix Hollow Fiber Membranes; Small angle neutron scattering; Thermal properties

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DISPERSIONS; GASES; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PERMEATION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

DSC MEASUREMENTS; FUNCTIONALIZED MWCNTS; GAS PERMEATION; GAS PERMEATION PROPERTIES; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANES; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; UNIFORM DISPERSIONS;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

EID: 84902682926     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2014.05.013     Document Type: Article

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