Applicability of two membranes for improving performance of a membrane reactor

Abstract

The applicability of the two-membrane reactor concept is demonstrated on a simple perfectly mixed reactor model. The two-membrane reactor has the advantage over the single membrane one, when both high conversion and mutual separation of products are required. By introducing the second membrane, the overall process efficiency (high conversion and high separation of components) could be improved, if the reactant was the slowest of the permeating components. © 1994.