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http://dx.doi.org/10.14579/MEMBRANE_JOURNAL.2014.24.3.223

Simulation on Concentration of CH4 Using Hollow Fiber Membrane Permeator with Countercurrent Flow  

Seo, Yeonhee (Dept. of Chem. Eng., College of Eng., Chungnam National University)
Lee, Seungmin (Dept. of Chem. Eng., College of Eng., Chungnam National University)
Park, Sungeun (Dept. of Chem. Eng., College of Eng., Chungnam National University)
Jung, Woojin (Dept. of Chem. Eng., College of Eng., Chungnam National University)
Kim, Jeonghoon (Environment & Resources Research Center, Korea Research Inst. of Chemical Technology)
Lee, Yongtaek (Dept. of Chem. Eng., College of Eng., Chungnam National University)
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Membrane Journal / v.24, no.3, 2014 , pp. 223-230 More about this Journal
Abstract
A numerical analysis was performed for concentration of methane from the biogas using a polysulfone hollow fiber membrane permeator. Governing equations were derived for the countercurrent flow and numerically solved by using the Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6 software. When the methane mole fraction of feed was 0.5, the mole fraction of retentate increased from 0.5 to 0.8; the normalized retentate flow rate to the feed flow rate decreased from 1.0 to 0.57 at the given typical operating condition as the feed gas flowed from the inlet to the outlet of the membrane. As the methane mole fraction of feed was changed to 0.9, the methane mole fraction of retentate became 0.93 and the normalized retentate flow rate was changed to 0.91. When the pressure ratio of the permeate to the feed was varied from 0.33 to 0.17, there was a little difference in the methane mole fraction of retentate for the low stage cut of 0.1, whereas there was an significant increment for the high stage cut of 0.3. The retentate methane mole fraction remained relatively high despite the change of a stage cut as the area of the membrane increased from $1.14m^2$ to $2.57m^2$.
Keywords
numerical analysis; countercurrent flow; methane; hollow fiber membrane;
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