Design and operation of an enhanced pervaporation device with static mixers

Pervaporation has a high potential for separating miscible solutions, particularly azeotropic mixtures. However, mass transfer limitations have long been a common concern in pervaporation device design. Therefore, in this work, we design a static mixer-based pervaporation device using water-ethanol...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Haomiao (Author), Ładosz, Agnieszka (Author), Jensen, Klavs F. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley, 2022-02-16T16:52:14Z.
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