Journal article
Transport of terpenes through composite PDMS/PAN solvent resistant nanofiltration membranes
MH Abdellah, CA Scholes, BD Freeman, L Liu, SE Kentish
Separation and Purification Technology | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | Published : 2018
Abstract
Terpenes such as d-limonene, α-pinene and p-cymene are considered green solvents that have no harmful effects on human health and the environment. These solvents represent promising alternatives for many recently-classified harmful solvents such as n-hexane, the typical solvent used for the extraction of vegetable oils. Although terpenes show high solvation power for the different oil constituents, their recovery by conventional evaporation stands as a barrier for their large-scale utilisation as they have significant higher boiling points than n-hexane. In this work, the transport of terpenes through a composite polydimethylsiloxane/polyacrylonitrile (PDMS/PAN) membrane is investigated at d..
View full abstractGrants
Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
M. H. Abdellah acknowledges The University of Melbourne for the Melbourne Research Scholarship. L. Liu and S.E. Kentish acknowledge funding support from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Program (DP150100977). B.D. Freeman gratefully acknowledges support from the Australian-American Fulbright Commission for the award of a U.S. Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Science, Technology, and Innovation sponsored by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). The assistance of the Materials Characterisation and Fabrication Platform (MCFP) at the University of Melbourne in completing the Atomic Force Microscopy analysis is also gratefully acknowledged.