Verfahren zum Abtrennen eines flüssigen Bestandteils von einer Lösung, die zwei oder mehrere flüssige Bestandteile enthält.

摘要

An improved method for separating a particular liquid component from a solution containing two or more liquid components having different boiling points. The method employs a vessel divided into a solution chamber and a vacuum chamber by a permeable membrane which is selectively and preferentially permeable to the vapors of the components having a lower boiling point than those of the other components. The solution is placed in the solution chamber out of direct contact with the permeable membrane at which condition a vacuum is applied to the vacuum chamber to evaporate the solution in the chamber and draw the resulting vapors through the permeable membrane into the vacuum chamber, thereby collecting the particular component from the solution in a vapor-to-vapor permeation through the permeable membrane. The improvement is to maintain the solution in the solution chamber at a higher temperature than an environment, and particularly the permeable membrane for increased separation efficiency.