Pervaporation, Vapour Permeation and Membrane Distillation: From Membrane Fabrication to Application

Fabrication of Electrospun Nanofibrous Membranes for Membrane Distillation Application

Nanofibrous membranes of matrimide were successfully fabricated using electrospinning technique under optimized conditions. Nanofibrous membranes were found to be highly hydrophobic with high water contact angle of 130°. FESEM and pore size distribution analysis revealed the big pore size structure of electrospun membranes even greater than 2μm and the pore size distribution is found to be narr...

The Application of Membrane Distillation for Broth Separation in Membrane Bioreactors

The possibility of applying membrane distillation to support the fermentation process was investigated. The capillary polypropylene membranes were assembled in the membrane modules. The studies were carried out using the standard solutions containing the compounds frequently occurring in the broths such as ethanol, citric, acetic and lactic acids, glycerol and 1,3-propanediol. The performance o...

Progress on Membrane Distillation and Related Technologies

Pervaporation: Membrane Separations

G-100 is used for higher molecular mass proteins. The solutions of proteins are prepared in guanidine hydrochloride (10 mg mL ), and cytochromec (10 mg mL ) is used as an internal standard. Descending chromatography is carried out at room temperature under an inclination angle of 253 to the horizontal. After 3 h of development the quotient Rs protein/Rs cytochrome c is calculated for each prote...

On Designing of Membrane Thickness and Thermal Conductivity for Large Scale Membrane Distillation Modules

Membrane distillation has the potential to concentrate solutions to their saturation level, thus offering the possibility to recover valuable salts from the solutions. The process performance and stability, however, is strongly dependent upon the features of membranes applied. In addition, several other parameters, membrane thickness and thermal conductivity significantly affect the process per...