A membrane contactor is a device that achieves gas/liquid or liquid/liquid mass transfer
without dispersion of one phase within another. This is accomplished by passing the fluids …

Supported liquid membranes (SLM) are studied in various fields like analytical, inorganic
and organic chemistry, chemical engineering, biotechnology and biomedical engineering …

Carrier-mediated transport through supported liquid membranes is currently recognized as a
potentially valuable technology for selective separation and concentration of toxic and …

Liquid-liquid extraction, leaching (solid extraction), absorption (gas extraction) and extractive
distillation have in common the use of a solvent which achieves the separation. According to …

Various possibilities of the application of membrane-based solvent extraction (MBSE) and
pertraction in recovery and separation of organic acids, and in biotransformations are …

A porous polypropylene membrane was treated to deposit a thin superhydrophobic coating.
Treatment conditions were optimised to maximise the contact angle. A high average static …

Mass transfer correlations have been obtained for the past eight decades by the Wilson-plot
method which has proved to be suitable for systems operating in steady-state conditions and …

Liquid membranes have traditionally been employed for liquid/liquid mass transfer and have
found applications in industrial, biomedical and analytical fields as well as in …

Extractive treatment of phenol-containing aqueous streams by two coupled hollow fiber
modules (for simultaneous extraction and stripping) is experimentally and theoretically …

Phenol removal from wastewaters was investigated using various extraction process
configurations of hydrophobic membrane contactors including: gas-filled membrane …