• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.945-953
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• 1997

Aromatic polyetherimide membranes were prepared by dry/wet phase inversion method and investigated regarding the pervaporation characteristic of water-alcohol mixtures by using the permselective property of imide group and the structure modification of skin layer of the membrane. The membrane selectivity increased with the reaction time of surface-modification, to some extent, and the density of top layer tends to increases with increasing the reaction time. In the case of dense membrane, the separation factor was 160 and 2000 for 90wt% ethanol mixture and 90wt% isopropanol solution, respectively, which implies that aromatic polyetherimide has a high permselectivity. The temperature dependence of permeation flux seems to follow an Arrhenius type at the temperature range of ($40^{\circ}C-70^{\circ}C$).

• Membrane Journal
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.182-187
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• 1996

Hydrophilic poly(acrylonitrile) [PAN] membrane with good molecular weight cut-off characteristics were prepared by using the phase inversion method. Permeability and molecular weight cut-off of the membranes were measured through the ultrafiltration test. On the surface of the PAN support membranes, poly(acrylic acid) [PAA] was deposited by dip-coating. The water permeability of the PAN support membrane had $0.17~31\textrm{mm}^3/m^{2} \cdot s \cdot Pa$, the molecular weight cut-off 42, 000~150, 000. The transport characteristics of the prepared composite membranes were significantly affected by the variation of the support membrane mophology. The permeability of the composite membrane was decreased with increasing molecular weight cut-off of the support membrane, and the separation factor was slightly changed depending on the feed concentration.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2007

Pervaporation process using membrane is newly emerging energy saying and cost effect process instead of distillation process. Especially, in pertrochemical industry, pervaporation process is a strong candidate to substitute the conventional energy consuming processes because that petrochemical industry has much energy consuming separation processes, many azeotrope mixtures to separate and needs to compact space to install new process units. Aromatic/aliphatic separation including benzene/cyclohexane mixture, olefin/paraffin separation, xylene isomer separation, reactive monomer recovery and sulfur compound removal from gasoline have been inversitigated for the application of pervaporation membrane process by many researchers and are under commercializing.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.57-62
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• 1994

This study uses pervaporation process to separate small amount of organic trichloroethylene, chloroform and perchloroethylene from contaminated water, since chlorinated hydrocarbones are known to be cancer suspecting compounds. For the separation of small amount of halogenated organic compound dissolved in wastewater, pervaporation membranes should be polymers that possess affinity with orgnic compounds and hydrophobicity. We used polyisobutylene, polyetheramide and polydimethylsiloxane membranes. The degree of affinity between organics and polymers were measured by contact angle method. We had good separation results that separation factor ranged from 34 to 19100 and permeate flux was$19.7~140g/m^2hr$.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.245-250
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• 2013

In this study, the pervaporation separation characteristics were investigated for the iso-propyl alcohol (IPA)-water system using PDMS dense membranes. The ratio, 9:1 and 10:1, of the basic material based on RTV-655 and crosslinking agent were used to prepare dense membranes at the reaction temperatures, 40, 60, and $80^{\circ}C$. And these resulting membranes were characterized by pervaporation technique in terms of permeabilities and separation factors for the feed composition of IPA 85 wt% at the operating temperatures, 25, 35, 45, and $55^{\circ}C$. Typical results of permeabilities $148g/m^2{\cdot}hr$ at $55^{\circ}C$ for 9:1 membrane and the selectivity 17 at $55^{\circ}C$ for 10:1 membrane were obtained, respectively.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.235-239
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• 2006

This study illustrated the results of pervaporation separation using crosslinked poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) with poly(styrene sulfonic acid-co-maleic acid) (PSSA-MA) for water-ethanol system at 25, 35, and $45^{\circ}C$. The contents of the crosslinking agents were 7, 9, and ll wt% against PVA and the feed compositions of 50, 20, 10 and 4.4% in water were investigated. Typical trends of permeability and separation factor in pervaporation were observed for both the crosslinking agents and operating temperatures. For water : ethanol = 10 : 90, and at $45^{\circ}C$, PSSA-MA 11 wt% membrane showed the permeability $58.92g/m^2{\cdot}hr$ and the separation factor 12003 respectively.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.163-169
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• 1999

The effects of interactions between permeant molecules or permeant and membrane material have been investigated on the permeation behavior of permeants in pervaporation of water/alcohol mix¬tures. A poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) membrane crosslinked with glutaraldehyde was employed in this study. A homologous series of alcohols in aqueous solution were used as feed. The pervaporation experiments were carried out with feed having 70-97 wt.% of alcohol contents and at various feed temperatures. In a high alcohol content above 92 wt.%, the permeation rate was increased in the order of interaction strength between alcohol and water in feed. However, in a low alcohol content below 90 wt.%, the tendency of the permeation rate was found to be opposite. These observations were discussed in terms of changes in interaction between permeant/permeant or permeant/membrane in varying feed composition and feed temperature.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.86-93
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• 1998

A permeation apparatus has been devdoped which could make the on-line measurements of both flux and permeate composition. Pervaporative experiment of a single component, i.e. water was performed by using poly(vinyl alcohol) membrane crosslinked with glutaraldehyde to confirm the validity of the apparatus. In the experiment, steady-state permeation was obtained in 15 minutes and the measurement could be completed within 20 minutes. A comparison of the on-line measurement was made with the fluxes measured simultaneously by the conventional method in which the permeates were collected by liquid nitrogen. The on-line measurement by the apparatus showed an excellent agreement with the conventional measurement within a difference of $\pm$2%. From the flux data with operating time, 3 kinds of diffusion coefficients of water $D_{slope}, D_{1/2}$, and $D_t$ were determined, which were also coincident with values in a literature. It was confirmed that accurate measurements of fluxes could be obtained from the apparatus.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.127-130
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• 2004

벤젠과 사이클로헥산을 투과증발법을 이용하여 분리하는 경우에는, 벤젠과 사이클로헥산의 물리적 성질이 비슷하고, 그 끓는점이 매우 비슷하기 때문에, 물리화학적인 특성을 먼저 알아야 한다. 벤젠은 이중결합을 가지고 있고, 공명구조를 이루고 있다. 즉 극성기와 강한 상호작용을 할 수 있는 파이전자를 벤젠이 가지고 있음을 주목하여야 한다.(중략)

• Membrane Journal
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.163-171
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• 2022

Many studies on pervaporation (PV) for the separation of dilute alcohols as an alternative to conventional energy-intensive technique of distillation have been conducted earlier. The pervaporation transition behavior of ethanol-water mixtures through the PDMS/PSF membrane is important, in order to understand the mechanism of diffusion process. Therefore, in the present work, transient PV behavior for 50 wt% EtOH/H₂O mixture at 50℃ was investigated by using 1194 cm² PDMS/PSF hollow fiber membrane modules. The overall total flux and the separation factor of all the membrane modules increased initially and then gradually decreased with respect to PV time. The initial increase can be attributed to fact that membrane fibers were dry and it took time to dissolve into the membrane surface, but the subsequent decrease is due to the depletion of ethanol concentration in the feed. Therefore, it was confirmed that the ethanol permeation through a PDMS membrane is governed by the solution-diffusion mechanism.