I want some articles on the comparison of extraction and membrane-based separation process. As both are separation techniques can we do a techno-economic comparison? Need your views, Very difficult to find any research paper on it.
Please consider hollow fiber membrane contactors, which combines both. One fluid flows through the shell while the other flows through the tubes, and the interface forms at the mouths of the pores. As in conventional contactors such as packed or trayed towers, mass transfer occurs by diffusion across the interface. Unlike traditional devices, both fluids are continuous, i.e., there is no dispersed phase. The technology offers numerous advantages over conventional contactors, including much higher interfacial area per unit volume (allowing for smaller equipment for a given capacity), no emulsions, known and constant interfacial area, and linear scale-up. Membrane contactors are in commercial use for gas-liquid applications (www.3m.com/3M/en_US/liquicel-us/), but to the best of my knowledge, not so much for liquid-liquid. You can read more here: Article Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactors
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