ABSTRACT
Membrane-assisted solvent extraction processes have known an increasing number of applications in the last decades [1-4]. This technique not only overcomes the limitations of conventional liquid extraction, such as flooding, intimate mixing, limitations on phase flow rate variations, and requirement of density difference but also provides a large surface area of mass transfer per volume of contactor [5]. Excellent reviews of the technology and its applications were presented by Ho and Sirkar in 1992 [6], and by Gabelman and Hwang [7].
