March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
32h 58m
English
Separations by the use of membranes are becoming increasingly important in the process industries. In this relatively new separation process, the membrane acts as a semipermeable barrier and separation occurs by the membrane controlling the rate of movement of various molecules between two liquid phases, two gas phases, or a liquid and a gas phase. The two fluid phases are usually miscible and the membrane barrier prevents actual, ordinary hydro-dynamic flow. A classification of the main types of membrane separation follows.
In this type a gas phase is present on both sides of the membrane, ...
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