Effective Industrial Membrane Processes: Benefits and Opportunities

Buch | Hardcover

417 Seiten

1991 | 1991 ed.
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-85166-723-9 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The aim of the Technical Advisory Committee, in planning the c~:>Dtent of this meeting, was to illustrate the range of separation processes in which the use of membranes was practical and effective at an industrial scale. As Professor Strathmann reveals, the market for process equipment built around membranes is now worth about $5x1(f annually, and it seemed important to review this technology, and to point the direction of future technical advances. All but the most critical reader should find some items of interest. The Committee would admit to not fulftlling all of thier aims, although those delegates who attended the meeting in Edinburgh judged it a success. In the event it provided representative examples of processes from the food and beverage industry, from water treatment, and from the chemical industry, of which the removal of alcohol from fermented beverages, shipboard desalination and solvent recovery are three. The major uses of charged membranes and sterile processes are not covered, nor 9 is the largest market, $1.2x10 annually, for artificial kidney dialysis. However, it is interesting to see artificial kidney now finding an alternative use as a reactor for the production of monoclonal antibodies. We are also reminded by Professor Michel of the importance and efficiency of natural membranes in the kidney under conditions where fouling is crucial to their performance and enhances their selectivity.

Opening Address.- Session A: Mass Transfer and Cleaning I.- A case study of reverse osmosis applied to the concentration of yeast effluent.- Enhanced mass transfer with ultrafiltration and microfiltration membranes.- Session B: Mass Transfer and Cleaning II.- Keynote address.- Membrane fouling and cleaning.- Investigation into protein fouling characteristics of ultrafiltration membranes.- Session C: Waste Water Treatment I.- A comparative evaluation of crossflow microfiltration membranes for radwaste dewatering.- The use of reverse osmosis for the purification of coal gasification liquors.- Session D: Waste Water Treatment II.- A fresh approach to sludge dewatering using tubular membrane pressing technology.- Landfill Leachate Treatment by reverse osmosis.- Session E: Applications in the Food and Beverages Industry.- Keynote address.- Crossflow microfiltration in the food industry.- Using membranes to purify water and de-alcoholise beer.- Session F: Applications in the Food and Beverages Industry.- Zirconium oxide based composite tubular membranes for ultrafiltration.- History and development of package desalination plants for defence and offshore application.- Session G: Biotechnology Applications.- The relevance of filtration in living capillaries to industrial membrane processes.- Ultrafiltration in living capillaries — an example of simple membrane processing in a biological system (capillary filtration )(Keynote Address).- Process optimization of an enzyme membrane reactor with soluble enzymes up to industrial scale.- Separation techniques with porous glass membranes: A comparison of dextrane and protein separations.- Antibody Production in a membrane reactor — A start-up company’s choice.- Session H: Applications in the Chemical Industry.- Industrialapplications of pervaporation.- Permeation membranes — an emergence of non-conventional separation technology.- Mechanism of the facilitated transport of the ?-alanine through a sulfonic membrane.- Phosphazene polymer membranes: hazardous chemical removal from gas and liquid feedstreams.- Session J: Gas Separation in the Petrochemical Industry I.- An operators overview of gas membranes.- Evolution of a gas separation membrane 1983–1990.- Nitrogen production by means of membrane technology for safety enhancement in marine and onshore petroleum and natural gas facilities.- Session K: Gas Separation in the Petrochemical Industry II.- Novel applications for gas separation membranes.- Membrane permeation and pressure swing absorption (PSA) for the production of high purity hydrogen.- Membrane gas separation in petrochemistry: problems of the polymeric membrane selection.- Index of Contributors.

Zusatzinfo	IX, 417 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-85166-723-7 / 1851667237
ISBN-13	978-1-85166-723-9 / 9781851667239
Zustand	Neuware