Computational Designing of Gradient-Type Catalytic Membrane: Application to the Conversion of Methanol to Ethylene

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Pan ◽  
Xinru Zhu ◽  
Hong Jiang ◽  
Yefei Liu ◽  
Rizhi Chen
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Membranes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
Ludmilla Bobrova ◽  
Nikita Eremeev ◽  
Nadezhda Vernikovskaya ◽  
Vladislav Sadykov ◽  
Oleg Smorygo

The performance of catalytic membrane reactors (CMRs) depends on the specific details of interactions at different levels between catalytic and separation parts. A clear understanding of decisive factors affecting their operational parameters can be provided via mathematical simulations. In the present paper, main results of numerical studies of ethanol steam reforming, followed by downstream hydrogen permeation through an asymmetric supported membrane, are reported. The membrane module consists of a thin selective layer supported on a substrate with graded porous structure. One-dimensional isothermal reaction–transport model for the CMR has been developed, and its validation has been carried out by using performance data from a lab-scale reactor with a disk-shaped membrane. Simulations demonstrate the model’s capabilities to analyze local concentrations gradients, as required to provide accurate estimates of the relationship between structure–property–performance. It was shown that transport properties of multilayer asymmetric membranes are highly related to the structural properties of each single layer.


Genetics ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 153 (2) ◽  
pp. 573-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henriette M Foss ◽  
Kenneth J Hillers ◽  
Franklin W Stahl

AbstractSalient features of recombination at ARG4 of Saccharomyces provoke a variation of the double-strand-break repair (DSBR) model that has the following features: (1) Holliday junction cutting is biased in favor of strands upon which DNA synthesis occurred during formation of the joint molecule (this bias ensures that cutting both junctions of the joint-molecule intermediate arising during DSBR usually leads to crossing over); (2) cutting only one junction gives noncrossovers; and (3) repair of mismatches that are semirefractory to mismatch repair and/or far from the DSB site is directed primarily by junction resolution. The bias in junction resolution favors restoration of 4:4 segregation when such mismatches and the directing junction are on the same side of the DSB site. Studies at HIS4 confirmed the predicted influence of the bias in junction resolution on the conversion gradient, type of mismatch repair, and frequency of aberrant 5:3 segregation, as well as the predicted relationship between mismatch repair and crossing over.


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