Pervaporation technology: Fundamentals and environmental applications
- Hoechst-Celanese Corp., Charlotte, NC (United States)
Growing awareness of the need to prevent pollution has required both producers and users of chemicals to take a closer look at their plant operations. Process solutions that meet cost and performance requirements and minimize environmental impact are high on their wish lists. To meet their changing needs, technology and process equipment suppliers are refocusing their research and development, to make new treatment options available sooner. Pervaporation is one such technology. Commercially available for the past ten years, it has only recently been adapted to remove VOCs from waste-water, a challenge facing not only chemical, but pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and textile plants. Energy efficiency and low-cost performance are gaining pervaporation more CPI converts, as is flexibility, since systems can be tailored to match a site's utilities and space, and to meet the conditions required for integrating product streams and turndown operations. The paper discusses the operation of this technology, modules and process engineering, hybrid systems, and its flexibility.
- OSTI ID:
- 6931748
- Journal Information:
- Chemical Engineering (New York); (United States), Vol. 101:9; ISSN 0009-2460
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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