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Accepted Manuscript: Advantages and Disadvantages of Membrane Separation

The document discusses membrane separation processes. It notes that for nanofiltration and ultrafiltration membranes, there is a linear relationship between flow rate and the inverse of solvent viscosity, indicating that convection is the main mass transport mechanism. For most ultrafiltration membranes, this relationship remains independent of organic solvent concentrations. Membrane configuration also affects performance. The advantages of membrane separation processes are discussed, including their ability to separate materials at the molecular to particulate scale, meeting many separation needs.

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Accepted Manuscript: Advantages and Disadvantages of Membrane Separation

The document discusses membrane separation processes. It notes that for nanofiltration and ultrafiltration membranes, there is a linear relationship between flow rate and the inverse of solvent viscosity, indicating that convection is the main mass transport mechanism. For most ultrafiltration membranes, this relationship remains independent of organic solvent concentrations. Membrane configuration also affects performance. The advantages of membrane separation processes are discussed, including their ability to separate materials at the molecular to particulate scale, meeting many separation needs.

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of the solute in the opposite direction to that of the process pressure, thus decreasing the

permeate flow rate (Field et al.,1995)

There is a linear relationship between flow rate and the inverse of the solvent viscosity

for nanofiltration and ultrafiltration membranes, indicating that the main mass transport

mechanism in these systems is convection. In the majority of ultrafiltration membranes, this


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linear relationship between flow rate and the inverse of the solvent viscosity remains

independent of the concentrations of organic solvents miscible with the aqueous solutions (Tsui

and Cheryan, 2004). The configuration (flat sheet, tubular modules, hollow fibers, plates units,

spiral wound) also affects membrane performance. Good membrane performance with respect to

permeate flow rate and retention of the desired solute should be balanced with respect to its

characteristics such as propensity for fouling, cost, ease of cleaning and substitution (Cheryan,

1998).

Membrane processes as microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis

(RO) have been widely applied to the dairy, food and beverage industry after the discovery of

asymmetric membranes (Loeb and Souriragin, 1960).

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF MEMBRANE SEPARATION:-

Membrane processes have a number of pluses and minuses compared to alternative means of

performing separations (Yamamoto et al., 1989).

The advantages include:

1) Membrane processes can separate at the molecular scale up to a scale at which particles

can actually be seen, this implies that a very large number of separation needs might

actually be met by membrane processes (Cassano et al., 2007).

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