Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno

Morpho B.v.

Jan Breen

Leonardus Antonius Maria Brouwers

Jan Van Den Berg

Wilhelmus Johannes Wesselink

Jolanda Van Medevoort

The invention is directed to methods for preparing a planar membrane module, a planar membrane module obtainable by said methods, methods for preparing a heat exchanging module, and a heat exchanging module obtainable by said methods. In one aspect the method of the invention comprises:&#x2014;providing a solid state planar membrane;&#x2014;injection molding a potting material into one or more potting frames for supporting said membrane;&#x2014;assembling, preferably by hot pressing, the one or more potting frames with the solid state planar membrane, thereby forming a membrane frame;&#x2014;optionally providing a spacer at least at one side of the planar membrane; and&#x2014;joining a stack of said membrane frames in a gastight manner to form a planar membrane module, said joining comprising welding of potting material.

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Delft, Netherlands

Jan Breen