Molecular activity and diffusion coefficients of solvents are important and find wide range of applications to analyze in many problems including polymers, such as polymerization, separation, devolatilization, vacuum/gas stripping and drying. The polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is a hydrophilic polymer membrane material, which was used extensively in the pervaporation process for dehydration. But due t...

The requirement to monitor the chemical quality of water has become one of the major issues in environmental analytics. Ionmobility spectrometry (IMS), a fast, sensitive method traditionally used in security and military applications, is also suitable for environmental analysis and detection of organic pollutants from aqueous matrices, when combined with advantageous methods to isolate analytes...

Abstract In the current study, bioethanol has been purified and separated from culture broth using in situ modified bacterial cellulose (BC) membrane with AMPS. To our knowledge, this is first report for development of BC composite separation production media. The characterization prepared was investigated morphology functional groups via scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform in...

Dense flat-sheet membranes were prepared from poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) (PPO) using the casting solvents chloroform and 1,1,2-trichloroethylene. X-ray diffraction, tapping mode atomic force microscopy (TM-AFM), and contact angle studies were used to characterize the membranes. The surface energy and the solubility parameters of the PPO membranes were determined from the measured co...

A fast, clean and easy to automate flow injection-pervaporation method for the determination of ethanol in different beverages using density measurements is proposed. The method is based on separation of the ethanol from the sample using a pervaporation module; the analyte being collected in water as acceptor liquid. The density of this water-alcohol mixture is measured at the detector. After o...

A unique Taylor-vortex membrane reactor (TVMR) design for continuous gas-liquid reactions is presented in this work. The consists of a cylindrical rotor inside stationary concentric vessel, and flexible system equispaced baffle rings surrounding the rotor. This restricts annular cross section to small gap between baffles rotor, divides annulus into 18 mixing zones. support 6 m long PFA tubular ...

The separation of liquid mixtures has been studied for a long time. Separation is based on the difference in physical properties including pore size and electrostatic interaction. Therefore, there are many difficulties materials having similar such as ethanol–water 1,4-dioxane–water mixtures. While pervaporation transport rates by permeability through membrane suggested, it still high energy co...