Membrane Alternative: Energy Implications for Industry: Watt Committee Report Number 21 (Watt Committee Report, No 21)

This book considers the uses of membrane technology in the chloralkali, water, food and biotechnology industries where the major effect of the technology is an improvement in product quality often allied to a saving in energy consumption. It also covers the implications for the power generation, oil and gas industries. Book Cover......Page 1 Members of The Watt Committee on Energy Working Group on Membranes......Page 3 Preface......Page 8 Overview of membranes......Page 12 Electrochemical process applications .........Page 20 Desalination technologies compared .........Page 30 Membranes in power generation......Page 42 The effect of pulsed flow on ultrafiltration fluxes in a baffled tubular membrane system......Page 50 Air sterilisation......Page 60 Concentration in the food and beverage industries without evaporation......Page 66 Fundamentals of pervaporation for ethanol/water separation......Page 70 Recent advances in cellulosic membranes for gas separation and pervaporation .........Page 80 Hydrogen from off-gases......Page 90 The applications of membrane technology in the natural gas industry......Page 98 Alcohol dehydration by pervaporation . .......Page 110 The osmotic engine......Page 116 The future of membranes in the offshore industries......Page 142 Twenty-first Consultative Conference of The Watt Committee on Energy......Page 166 The Watt Committee on Energy: Objectives, Historical Background and Current Programme......Page 170 Member Institutions of The Watt Committee on Energy......Page 172 Watt Committee Reports......Page 173 Index......Page 174