This paper presents a method for the fabrication of integrated porous silica layers in microfluidic channel networks by microfabrication techniques. Porous silica is obtained by anodization of silicon, followed by full conversion of the porous silicon network into porous silica by means of thermal oxidation. A series of experiments were performed with various channel layouts to determine the cr...

Here, we reported a strategy of using an eggshell membrane to produce hierarchically porous carbon as low-cost substrate for synthesizing nano-nickel oxide catalyst (C@NiO), which can effective...

Membrane fouling persists to be among key obstacles in liquid membrane-based separation processes, and thereby the underlying understanding has actively been pursued. The two gaps attempted addressed here are namely, (i) internal fouling, which limited studies due limitations of instruments available; (ii) by mixtures oppositely charged particles, as an extension on effect surface charge pure f...

We tested the hypothesis that greater cavitation resistance correlates with less total inter-vessel pit area per vessel (the pit area hypothesis) and evaluated a trade-off between cavitation safety and transport efficiency. Fourteen species of diverse growth form (vine, ring- and diffuse-porous tree, shrub) and family affinity were added to published data predominately from the Rosaceae (29 spe...

Surface and bulk membrane have been electrically and chemically characterized by different kinds of measurements. Tangential streaming potential, impedance spectroscopy, membrane potential and salt diffusion were measured with a porous polysulfone membrane for ultrafiltration when it was in contact with NaCl solutions at different concentrations (5×10 c 5×10 M). From these experiments some memb...

MFI zeolite membranes were prepared on porous α-alumina substrates, using secondary growth of nano-seeded layers. The resulting membranes were characterized by means of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), X-Ray Diffractometry (XRD), and pervaporation performance tests for separation of Benzene, Toluene and Xylene (BTX) mixture from contaminated water. The morphology, thickness, homogeneity,...

MFI-type zeolite membranes (ZSM-5) were prepared on α-alumina tubular supports and tested for separation of H2/CO mixtures. The effect of pressure and temperature on H2 and CO flows and selectivity was investigated. The best results in this work were obtained with a ZSM-5 membrane prepared over a porous α-alumina tube seeded with zeolite nanocrystals synthesized with m...

A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) with both gas distribution flow channels and Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) is developed. A set of conservation equation is numerically solved by developing a CFD code based on the finite volume technique and SIMPLE algorithm. In this research, some parameters like oxygen consumption, water...

Palladium-based membranes are attractive for their nearly perfect permselectivity to hydrogen. Membrane modules, consisting of a membrane foil, porous stainless steel substrate, test frame and flange were assembled and tested in an electrically heated vessel. Instantaneous hydrogen permeation flux was measured. Influences of operation conditions on the membrane performance were examined. Micros...

The theoretical analysis of the distribution on both sides of a flat porous membrane of the product generated by an enzyme covalently bound only on to one side of the membrane separating two compartments of widely different volumes is presented. Contrary to what occurs with heterogeneous symmetric systems, the diffusional limitations at the enzyme level play a prominent role, not only on the ap...