Research Papers by M. Wessling

Biological production of hydrogen —one of the most promising alternative energy fuels — was planned torealize in an integrated system, where hydrogen is separated by a membrane technique. In this project poly-ethersulfonepolyimide hollow fiber membrane was applied in a specially constructed gas sepa

The ability to produce functional food ingredients from natural sources becomes increasingly attractive to the food industry. Antimicrobial (bioactive) ingredients, like peptides and proteins, can be isolated from hydrolysates with membrane filtration and/or chromatography. Electro-membrane filtrati

In this paper the transport behavior of water vapor and nitrogen in a poly(butylene terephthalate) poly (ethylene oxide) block copolymer is discussed. This polymer has a high solubility for water (300 cm3 (STP)/cm3 polymer at activity 0.9). A new permeation set up has been built to determine the wat

In this work the preparation and characterization of gas separation hollow fibers based on polyethersulfone Sumikaexcel (PES) and polyimide Matrimid 5218 (PI) blends are reported. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) was used to investigate the morphological characteristics and structure of the asymme

In this work, the effects of major spinning parameters, such as: polymer concentration, air gap distance, bore fluid composition, and take-up velocity on the structure and the permeation properties of polyethersulfone-polyimide gas separation hollow fibers are discussed in detail. It is shown that a

As a new solvent free method for membrane formation, we have investigated the foaming of high-Tg polymers. We report two different routes for the formation of open-microcellular and open-nanoporous membrane morphologies. Porosity is introduced by expansion of carbon dioxide saturated films and hollo