摘要:
A process for removing organic compounds from water is disclosed. The process involves gas stripping followed by membrane separation treatment of the stripping gas. The stripping step can be carried out using one or multiple gas strippers and using air or any other gas as stripping gas. The membrane separation step can be carried out using a single-stage membrane unit or a multistage unit. Apparatus for carrying out the process is also disclosed. The process is particularly suited for treatment of contaminated groundwater or industrial wastewater.
摘要:
A process for treating a gas stream to remove or recover a condensable component. The process involves a condensation step followed by a membrane concentration step. The process is useful in treating raw gas streams containing low concentrations of the condensable component, in treating small-volume raw gas streams, as an alternative to processes that require multistage membrane separation systems, in treating raw gas streams that have the potential to form explosive mixtures, or in situations where the treated gas stream composition must meet narrow target specifications.
摘要:
A process for treating a gas stream to remove or recover a condensable component. The process involves a condensation step followed by a membrane concentration step. The process is useful in treating raw gas streams containing low concentrations of the condensable component, in treating small-volume raw gas streams, as an alternative to processes that require multistage membrane separation systems, in treating raw gas streams that have the potential to form explosive mixtures, or in situations where the treated gas stream composition must meet narrow target specifications.
摘要:
A pervaporation process and system for removing a component from a liquid stream. The process includes a pervaporation separation step and a recovery step. An auxiliary membrane module or set of modules is installed across a condenser and/or recovery unit on the downstream side of the main pervaporation unit. This module takes as its feed a stream from the recovery unit and returns a component-enriched stream to the inlet of the condenser or recovery unit. The module can be sized to produce a discharge stream containing the component in about the same concentration as the feed to be treated. This discharge stream can then be mixed with the feed without adverse effect on the efficiency of the system.
摘要:
A spiral-wound pervaporation module, designed to achieve optimum permeate flow throughput. The module is of conventional design and construction, in that it incorporates membrane envelopes, within and between which are channels through which the feed and permeate streams flow. The feed and permeate channels are created by spacers on the feed and permeate sides of the membrane layers. The module is unconventional in that the permeate spacer is tailored for optimum permeate flow throughput. The tailoring is based on the discovery that the total permeate flow throughput from a module passes through a maximum as the resistance to vapor transport of the permeate spacer material is progressively decreased. The resistance to vapor transport along the permeate channel is kept below a value at which it has a significant adverse effect on the membrane flux and the membrane separation properties, yet at the same time the total module throughput is within an optimum range.When modules in accordance with the invention are made, the increase in throughput per unit membrane area that is obtained more than compensates for the loss in membrane area brought about as a result of the use of a thicker permeate spacer. The modules are particularly advantageous for containing high-flux, high-separation membranes, and for low-pressure pervaporization processes.
摘要:
The invention is a process involving membrane-based gas separation for separating and recovering carbon dioxide emissions from combustion processes in partially concentrated form, and then transporting the carbon dioxide and using or storing it in a confined manner without concentrating it to high purity. The process of the invention involves building up the concentration of carbon dioxide in a gas flow loop between the combustion step and a membrane separation step. A portion of the carbon dioxide-enriched gas can then be withdrawn from this loop and transported, without the need to liquefy the gas or otherwise create a high-purity stream, to a destination where it is used or confined, preferably in an environmentally benign manner.
摘要:
A gas separation process for treating flue gases from combustion processes, and combustion processes including such gas separation. The invention involves routing a first portion of the flue gas stream to be treated to an absorption-based carbon dioxide capture step, while simultaneously flowing a second portion of the flue gas across the feed side of a membrane, flowing a sweep gas stream, usually air, across the permeate side, then passing the permeate/sweep gas to the combustor.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a power generation process in which a portion of the carbon dioxide generated by gaseous fuel combustion is recycled back to the power generation process, either pre-combustion, post-combustion, or both. The power generation process of the invention may be a combined cycle process or a traditional power generation process. The process utilizes sweep-based membrane separation.
摘要:
Disclosed herein are combustion systems and power plants that incorporate sweep-based membrane separation units to remove carbon dioxide from combustion gases. In its most basic embodiment, the invention is a combustion system that includes three discrete units: a combustion unit, a carbon dioxide capture unit, and a sweep-based membrane separation unit. In a preferred embodiment, the invention is a power plant including a combustion unit, a power generation system, a carbon dioxide capture unit, and a sweep-based membrane separation unit. In both of these embodiments, the carbon dioxide capture unit and the sweep-based membrane separation unit are configured to be operated in parallel, by which we mean that each unit is adapted to receive exhaust gases from the combustion unit without such gases first passing through the other unit.
摘要:
A process for treating mixtures of organic components, including azeotropic mixtures. The process includes a gas- or liquid-phase membrane separation step in conjunction with a dephlegmation step to treat at least a portion of the permeate vapor from the pervaporation step. The process yields a membrane residue stream, a stream enriched in the more volatile component as the overhead stream from the dephlegmator and a condensate stream enriched in the less volatile component as a bottoms stream from the dephlegmator. Any of these may be the principal product of the process.