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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1991
Masao Ninomiya, Ichihara, JP;
Masao Kikuchi, Ichihara, JP;
Masaru Umeda, Tokyo, JP;
Motojuro Yamaya, Tokyo, JP;
Ube Industries, Ltd., both of, JP;
M. Watanabe & Co., Ltd., both of, JP;
Abstract
A lower alcohol is recovered from a mixed liquid thereof with water, derived from a vapor drying procedure for a water-wetted article, for example, a water-washed lens or semiconductor wafer, by feeding the mixed liquid of a lower alcohol with water from the vapor drying procedure to a vaporizer; vaporizing the mixed liquid; feeding the mixed vapor into a gas-separating module comprising at least one gas-separating membrane, for example, composed of a aromatic polyimide hollow fiber, which allows a selective permeation of water vapor from a feed side to a permeated side therethrough, withdrawing a non-permeated vapor fraction containing the lower alcohol in an increased concentration from the feed side, and converting the vapor fraction to a high purity lower alcohol liquid by cooling, while discharging a permeated vapor fraction containing water in an increased concentration from the permeated side.