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Over the past few years, the number and variety of industrial pervaporation plants have dramatically increased. At least 20 to 50 plants of a minimum of 5000 L/day product capacity are in operation, with many more in development and pilot phases. In Europe and Asia, the primary driving forces have been (1) reduced energy costs, (2) low overall system capital costs, and (3) superior separations possible, with no limitations imposed by thermodynamic azeotropes relative to azeotropic distillation. In North America, the driving forces have been somewhat different: (1) pollution-free, closed-loop operation, minimum wastewater, and no entrainers, and (2) small, compact units with low capital costs for retrofitting existing plants to increase existing bottlenecked capacity versus distillation and adsorption with molecular 132 sieves. Although the level of energy consumption is considerably less in pervaporation than other competing processes, it is a much less important factor in the United States than is pollution abatement in the selection of pervaporation or integrated pervaporation.

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Fleming, H.L., Slater, C.S. (1992). Applications and Economics. In: Ho, W.S.W., Sirkar, K.K. (eds) Membrane Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3548-5_10

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