Recently, pervaporation separation processes have gained much attention in the separation of azeotropic and close boiling point organic-organic mixtures due to its high separation efficiency, economy, safety, and energy saving potentials. In this work, the effects of experimental factors such as feed composition and operating temperature on the performance of a commercial poly vinyl alcohol mem...

Selection of mobile phases markedly affect separation efficiency of eluted probes in gas chromatography (GC), the mobile phases have a pronounced effect on the retention times and efficiency of natural gas separation. In solid chromatography, carrier gases which are adsorbed to any extent occupy more active adsorption sites, reducing the net heat of adsorption of the eluted zone. The efficiency...

Urine source separation (NoMix technology) is a promising innovation in wastewater management. To improve and further develop NoMix technology, it has been implemented in four Swiss households and at our research institute (Eawag). We conducted measurements during one year on frequency of toilet usage (in households 5.2/person/day for weekdays, and 6.3/person/day for weekends), flushing behavio...

The Workshop was asked by Pall Corporation to consider ways in which membrane morphology may be characterized, and how such characterization can be used to assess filtration efficiency. The working group considered a variety of different (but related) approaches, which are outlined below but which will be described in more detail in the forthcoming report. 1 Darcy flow model In an effort to cha...

Separation of metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is of great importance for SWCNT-based nano-electronics. We propose a tandem extraction strategy for efficient separation of different types of SWCNTs. This strategy is based on chiral angle discriminated adsorption of soluble condensed benzenoid aromatic molecules on SWCNTs, which induce different dispersibility ...

Numerical analysis of flow characteristics and separation efficiency in a high-efficiency cyclone has been performed. Several models based on the experimental observation for a design purpose were proposed. However, the model is only estimated the cyclone's performance under the limited environments; it is difficult to obtain a general model for all types of cyclones. The purpose of this study ...

This manuscript deals with the blind source separation problem with an instantaneous but dynamical mixture model. This study is limited to the case when the number of sources is time-variant. Theoretically, when new sources are detected, a new separating matrix should be estimated in order to extract all sources. However this effort implies an overwhelm computational cost. Our idea consists to ...