Abstract
The alleviation of environmental problems is one of the biggest challenges of technology today. The development and implantation of new separation processes may result in a “green” industrial revolution. Membrane technology has many advantages to offer in this respect. Membrane contactors are commonly hollow fibre devices used as substitutes for packed towers. As such, they are alternative industrial configurations for carrying out gas absorption or stripping and liquid-liquid extraction. This paper is limited to gas-liquid contactors. In the case of oxygenation of water, a resistance-in-series model with two resistances, the membrane and the liquid film resistance, was used to describe the oxygen transfer process. An induction of secondary flows is used to decrease the mass transfer resistance in the liquid phase and increase the oxygen flux. The study was based on a comparison between straight modules and coiled modules. For straight modules, the results are consistent with the Lévêque correlation. For coiled modules mass transfer coefficients were found to be two to four times higher than for straight modules and a new mass transfer correlation is presented.
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Aptel, P., Moulin, P., Clifton, M., Rouch, JC., Serra, C. (1997). Membrane Gas Liquid Contactors in Water and Wastewater Treatment. In: Jain, R.K., Aurelle, Y., Cabassud, C., Roustan, M., Shelton, S.P. (eds) Environmental Technologies and Trends. Environmental Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59235-5_11
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