Research Papers by Enrico Drioli

Membrane distillation (MD) has gained significant regard from industrial and academic perspective in recent years, thus the frequency of publications related to the field has greatly accelerated. New perspectives have boosted the research activities related to deeper understanding of heat and mass tra

Modified poly(ether ether ketone) (PEEKWC) and polysulphone (PSU) hollow fibre (HF) membranes were prepared via dry-wet spinning technique through the phase inversion process and characterised by pure water permeability, dextran rejection and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The performance of th

These results demonstrate that the oxygen permeable membrane bioreactor utilized in our study allows obtaining a small-scale organization of human hepatocytes in a micro architecture similar to that in vivo. This study attested the feasibility of the small-scale flat membrane bioreactor as a simple

Fig. 1. SDS-page assay: lane 1, protein extract from Olea europaea (total volume 2 mL); lane 2, permeate; lane 3, retentate (total volume 2 mL); lane 4, b-glucosidase from almond. Protein mass (mg) Activity (mmol/min·mg) 1.20 1.00 Preliminary results showed that the purity of fruit extracts was impr

Composite gas separation membranes with a 0.1–3 mm thick film of Hyflon AD 60X on a porous hollow fibre ultrafiltration membrane support of amorphous poly(ether ether ketone), were prepared. The influence of the coating conditions on the film thickness and on the pure gas transport properties was st

Super-hydrophobic membranes were manufactured by using two per-fluorinated polymers such as PVDF and Hyflon AD. The combination of controlled structure and supra-molecular chemistry made these membranes ideal interfaces to be used in membrane contactors. Super-hydrophobic per-fluorinated membranes w

Novel PEEK-WC-PU membrane results an interesting material which is able to support the long-term maintenance and differentiation of human hepatocytes. These results evidenced a good performance of PEEK-WC-PU membranes in terms of albumin and urea synthesis. Moreover the experiments with the bioreact