Liquid Separations with Membranes: An introduction to barrier interference

✍ Scribed by Karl Wilhelm Böddeker (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 155
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 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 demands which they are to meet, or else by way of the separation effects which they inspire. Learning by principles and context – exploiting barrier interference is the challenge of membrane separation science and technology. This book is about the principles behind.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
An Introduction to Barrier Separation....Pages 1-16
The Thermodynamic Connection....Pages 17-37
Osmosis et cetera....Pages 39-62
Membrane Filtration....Pages 63-80
Pervaporation versus Evaporation....Pages 81-104
What Membranes are About....Pages 105-112
Tracing Membrane Science, an Historical Account....Pages 113-119
Back Matter....Pages 121-146

✦ Subjects

Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Physical Chemistry; Biotechnology; Biochemical Engineering; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution