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Membrane Modules and Process Design

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Gas Separation Membranes

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Hundreds of thousands of square meters of membrane are needed to perform the required separation of compounds in industrial plants. There are several efficient and economical ways to create a large surface area in a membrane package for effective compound separation. From an overall cost standpoint, not only the cost of membranes per unit area is crucial but also the cost of the containment vessel into which they are mounted. These packages are called membrane modules. The most important are: Plate-and-frame, Tubular, Spiral-wound and Hollow fiber.

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  1. Advanced Membrane Technology Research Center (AMTEC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

    Ahmad Fauzi Ismail

  2. Industrial Membrane Research Laboratory Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Kailash Chandra Khulbe

  3. Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Takeshi Matsuura

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Ismail, A.F., Khulbe, K.C., Matsuura, T. (2015). Membrane Modules and Process Design. In: Gas Separation Membranes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01095-3_5

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