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A multicontinuum approach for the problem of filtration of oily‐water systems across thin flat membranes: II. Validation and examples
Author(s) -
Salama Amgad,
Zoubeik Mohamed,
Henni Amr
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.15970
Subject(s) - membrane , permeation , filtration (mathematics) , porosity , mechanics , process engineering , materials science , chemistry , chromatography , thermodynamics , mathematics , engineering , physics , statistics , composite material , biochemistry
In this second part, a validation exercise is conducted to investigate the accuracy of the multicontinuum approach in estimating the permeation capacity of membranes used for the filtration of oily‐water systems. Comparisons with the experimental works found in the literature reveals that the multicontinuum approach is quite accurate and show excellent match. Although the comparisons with the experimental data have been with respect to macroscopic integral variables, like the rejection capacity of membranes, the multicontinuum approach provides myriad information about the permeation process that have neither been presented nor even measured. Such detailed information has been highlighted in two examples. Details about which of the oil continua is going to be rejected or permeated through which porous membrane continuum are obtained. Furthermore, the flux of each oil continuum through every porous membrane continua is likewise obtained. These informations are then lumped to calculate the rejection capacity of membranes. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J , 64: 1095–1105, 2018