In this article, the pervaporation selectivity as a function of the membrane thickness is studied for the dehydration of acetic acid. From this study, it appeared that the selectivity of polysulfone (PSF) , poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC ) , and polyacrylonitrile (PAN) decreases with decreasing membrane thickness, below a limiting value of about 15 pm. However, in the case of gas separation, the se...

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...

This work focuses on modelling, simulation and process analysis of hybrid membrane separations namely on distillation and pervaporation. Such hybrid process can be applied for the separation of multicomponent azeotropic mixtures without the use of entrainer. Its application is illustrated by the separation of a non-ideal ternary mixture of acetone, isopropanol and water. The extended abstract d...

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...

The objectives of the present study were to recover and identify volatiles organic compounds (VOCs) in the wastewater (WW) coming from a soluble coffee industrial plant. For VOCs recover, the WW was concentrated by pervaporation using a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane. Furthermore, the solid phase micro extraction (SPME) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) were used for VOCs i...

Pervaporation removal of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) from dilute aqueous solutions was demonstrated using ceramic-supported polymer (CSP) membranes. These membranes were created by the free radical graft polymerization of vinyl acetate onto a vinyl trimethoxysilaneactivated porous silica substrate having a native average pore size of 500 Å. The resulting membranes consisted of poly(vinyl ace...

Pervaporation has a high potential for separating miscible solutions, particularly azeotropic mixtures. However, mass transfer limitations have long been common concern in pervaporation device design. Therefore, this work, we design static mixer-based using water–ethanol separation as model system and further develop computational fluid dynamics tools to investigate systematically all the influ...

We use pervaporation-based microfluidic devices to concentrate species in aqueous solutions with spatial and temporal control of the process. Using experiments and modeling, we quantitatively describe the advection-diffusion behavior of the concentration field of various solutions (electrolytes, colloids, etc.) and demonstrate the potential of these devices as universal tools for the kinetic ex...

Pervaporation is a membrane process that offers high separation performance and has an important potential for the treatment of saline water sources. In this study, poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) PVA-SiO2 nanocomposite membranes were prepared by solution-casting method, pervaporative desalination studies carried out synthetic seawater (35 g L-1) at 30, 40 50?C. Effects temperatures incorporation SiO...