Membrane Processes
| Lecturer: | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Wessling |
| Contact: | MemV.CVT@avt.rwth-aachen.de |
| Lecture: | 2 hrs |
| Tutorials: | 2 hrs |
| Course schedule: | Please get them from the Course calendar RWTH Online |
| Lecture notes: | Available on Moodle |
| Semester: | Winterterm |
| Language: | English |
| Exam: | Oral Exam |
With the development of more powerful and durable polymer-based membranes, in the past decade, membrane processes have become energetically and economically interesting basic operations in process engineering. Particulary in the food processing industry, the bio-processing branch and the treatment of industrial waste water, membranes provide a promising alternative to conventional separation techniques. This lecture treats the basics of mass transfer in membranes and phases in contact to membranes for processes like reverse osmosis, gas permeation, electro-dialysis as well as for ultra-, micro-, and nano-filtration. Module design, optimization and interconnections in overall processes are presented based on these fundamentals. Several successful applications are discussed.