Liquid Separations with Membranes

An Introduction to Barrier Interference

Karl W. Böddeker, Technische Universitat Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
 

On the level of a textbook a self-consistent approach to liquid separations with membranes is presented, contrasting equilibrium separations with the rate-controlling effects of barrier interference on mass transfer. As a corollary objective, an effort is made to observe context, factual and historical, when introducing concepts and applications of membrane separation science. Ordering principle is the formal structure of mass transfer across permeable barriers, being construed of a driving force (allocated to the condition of the mixtures to be separated) and a barrier permeability (holding the keys to membrane selectivity). The membranes, by this approach, appear by way of the mass transport requirements which they are to meet, or else by way of the separation effects which they inspire. Exploiting barrier interference is the challenge of membrane separation science and technology. This book is about the principles behind.

Contents:
Preface – Symbols and abbreviations – An introduction to barrier separation – The thermodynamic connection – Osmosis et cetera – Membrane filtration – Pervaporation versus evaporation – What membranes are about – Tracing membrane science, an historical account – Appendices

2008. XVI, 146 p. 40 illus. Hardcover

ISBN: 978-3-540-47451-7

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