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Ceramic Membranes Characterization

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Ceramic Membranes Applied in Separation Processes

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This chapter is about some of the main methods used in the ceramic membranes characterization. Some of these methods are permeability, solute rejection assays, porosimetry by mercury intrusion, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, among others.

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da Silva Biron, D., dos Santos, V., Zeni, M. (2018). Ceramic Membranes Characterization. In: Ceramic Membranes Applied in Separation Processes. Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58604-5_4

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