Material as a High Tech Product Contacting Device

Membrane Material as a High Tech Product Contacting Device 

When used mainly as a contacting device, the membrane material leads to considerably improved performance for transfer and/or reaction as compared to a classical packing. This is due to a better management of fluid dynamics and mixing conditions, to increased surface areas and to better controlled driving forces. In fact the membrane represents the assembly of a multitude of microsystems, which act in parallel and can be functionalized. With materials structured at the nanoscale level it would be possible to control phenomena at the molecular level. As compared to dispersed beds of microparticles, porous layers have the main advantage of keeping 

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