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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2009
Erik Everhardus Bernardus Meuleman, Zutphen, NL;
Peter Geerdink, Leiden, NL;
Earl Lawrence Vincent Goetheer, Westdorpe, NL;
Eva Sanchez Fernandez, Leiden, NL;
Erik Everhardus Bernardus Meuleman, Zutphen, NL;
Peter Geerdink, Leiden, NL;
Earl Lawrence Vincent Goetheer, Westdorpe, NL;
Eva Sanchez Fernandez, Leiden, NL;
Abstract
The invention is directed to a process for separating liquid mixtures, which includes passing a liquid stream of the liquid mixture over a membrane, the membrane being selective for at least one of a first compound and a second compound, whereby at least part of the liquid stream passes through the membrane leaving the other side of the membrane as a vapor, with the remainder of the liquid stream forming a retentate stream, and condensing the vapor on a condenser surface having a lower temperature than the liquid stream to give a distillate stream, the condenser surface forming a non-permeable heat conducting separation wall between the distillate stream and a cooling stream which cooling stream is a) a feed stream, or b) the retentate stream.