Kinetic Arheotropes in Reactive Membrane Separation

The possible products of a reactive membrane separation process are influenced by the mass transfer characteristics of the applied membranes. In the following section it is shown how the concepts and tools, being developed for reactive vapor-liquid separation, can also be used to analyze the feasibility of membrane separators. 

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A singular point of reactive membrane separation should be denoted as kinetic arheotrope because it is a process phenomenon rather than a thermodynamic phenomenon. The condition for arheotropy can be elegantly expressed in terms of new transformed variables, which are a generalized formulation of the transformed composition variables first introduced to analyze reactive azeotropes. 

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