Pervaporation is an important membrane process in chemical industries in which valuables are isolated from the liquid mixture. Liquid and vapor separation by thermal processes has always been highly energy intensive, and new separation processes taking advantage of mass transfer through dense membranes have already shown they enable very significant energy savings as compared to more classic technologies (Anne et al. 2002). Membranes can be used for the selective removal of water from aqueous organic mixtures. Pervaporation (PV) is a separation process that involves separation of liquid mixtures, in contact with a membrane. With feed solution on one side, permeate is removed as a vapor from the other side (Brian et al. 2011); pervaporation (PV) is a very well-known membrane process for the separation of liquid and vapor mixtures due to its energetic aspects (EP 909209A1 1999; EP 944575A1 1999; EP 880400A1 1998). Pervaporation mostly allows a variety of possible application areas:...
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Lee, KH. (2016). Ethanol–Water Mixtures: Separation by Pervaporation. In: Drioli, E., Giorno, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Membranes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44324-8_1063
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