Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Membrane and Reactive Mass-Exchange Processes
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 8377
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymeric membranes; pervaporation; gas separation; ultrafiltration; thermodynamic and thermochemical properties; non-equilibrium thermodynamics; modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue (SI) focuses on thermodynamic analysis and description of peculiarities of membrane processes. Particular attention will be paid to the theoretical description and modeling of mass transfer, taking into account the features of the structure of membrane materials and developing fundamental approaches to the kinetics of membrane processes under various conditions. The SI will include papers related not only to thermodynamic and kinetic problems of membrane separation of liquid and gas mixtures, but also to the results of work in the field of hybrid processes, including the stages of chemical reaction and interphase transfer. New experimental data on these coupled reaction-mass exchange processes should also be accompanied by a theoretical analysis of the new regularities. Such expansion of the thematic SI is determined by modern trends in energy and resource-saving technologies, including the problems of green chemistry. It is also possible to include results related to the properties of new membrane materials that determine the features of the process mechanism. At the same time, the main aim of SI is limited to the classical processes of separation of liquid and gas mixtures and analysis of their behavior in membrane material during mass transfer (for example, pervaporation, ultrafiltration, gas separation, and other membrane processes). For the purposes of theoretical analysis, methods of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, thermodynamic modeling, molecular dynamic simulation, quantum chemistry, and other modern approaches can be used.
I hope that SI will be useful for researchers interested in fundamental investigation of membrane processes, primarily their thermodynamic and kinetic analysis.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Toikka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Thermodynamics of membrane processes
- Kinetics of membrane processes
- Modeling
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- Polymeric membranes
- Pervaporation
- Ultrafiltration
- Gas permeation
- Reactive mass-exchange processes
- Coupled processes
- Theoretical analysis
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