â a model is developed for separation of multicomponent gas mixtures in a countercurrent hollow fiber membrane module. while the model’s solution in countercurrent module usually involves in a time consuming iterative procedure, a proper initial guess is proposed for beginning the calculation and a simple procedure is introduced for correcting the guesses, hereby the cpu time is decreased ess...

The total volume of water on Earth is circa 300 million cubic miles, with close to 98.0% being salt water and the remaining 2.0% fresh water. It has been increasingly more challenging to harvest fresh water from surface water, seawater and even from wastewater due to the combination of factors, viz. burgeoning population growth, rapid industrialization and climate change. Recently, membrane dis...

This paper presents as main contribution the combination of membrane osmotic distillation (OD) to dealcoholize red wine with hydrophobic-hydrophilic pervaporation (PV) carried out add value wastewater (extracting water) produced in OD, recycling water and generating bioethanol. Membrane OD a commercial polypropylene hollow fiber module was applied partially from 14.0 11.0 v/v% ethanol. The extr...

eryngium caucasicum trautv. (apiaceae) is a perennial herbaceous plant with about one meter height, an endemic species that has been distributed in the northern parts of iran. the plant leaves are normally used in medicine and food industries in iran.the plant has several medicinal properties including enforcing generative power, diuretic, lenitive and appetizer. in this research differents par...

in this study, the influence of the salts as an additive on the performance of the membrane was investigated and an extensive work was performed to optimize pvdf hollow fiber membranes through a response surface methodology (rsm). the prepared membranes were characterized by sem, contact angle and lep measurement. then, the rsm was used for the optimization of surface pore size, porosity and hy...

OBJECTIVE To determine the benefit of membrane sweeping at initiation of labor induction in conjunction with formal methods of labor induction. METHODS Two hundred seventy-four women at term with a singleton fetus in cephalic presentation and intact membranes were randomly assigned to receive membrane sweeping or no membrane sweeping at initiation of formal labor induction with either dinopro...

In the article, a new air-blowing vacuum membrane distillation (AVMD) process is proposed, and it forms the air-liquid flows in the membrane by forcedly blowing airs to the hot feed liquids circularly flowing in the hollow fiber membrane, and forms the AVMD system to enhance the turbulent degree of the liquids. The intense disturbance of air bubbles and the strong cutting power at the surface o...

Peripheral plasma concentrations of 13,14-dihydro-15-keto prostaglandin F (PGFM) were measured in three groups of women after the 37th week of pregnancy. Samples were taken before and five minutes after (a) amniotomy, (b) vaginal examination with sweeping of the fetal membranes, or (c) vaginal examination without sweeping of the membranes. Each procedure significantly raised the circulating PGF...

Gas reservoirs usually have high recovery due to high mobility and low residual gas saturation, although some of them producing under water-drive mechanism have low recovery efficiency. Encroachment of water into these reservoirs traps considerable amount of gas and increases the maximum residual gas saturation, which results in the reduction of gas and condensate production. Generally, the rec...