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ISRN Thermodynamics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 878279, 4 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/878279
Research Article

A Case Study of Nanofiltration Using an Irreversible Thermodynamics-Based Model

G. R. Vakili-Nezhaad1,2 and Z. Akbari2

1Department of Petroleum & Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman
2Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Kashan, Kashan 87317-51167, Iran

Received 7 December 2011; Accepted 9 January 2012

Academic Editor: Z. Slanina

Copyright © 2012 G. R. Vakili-Nezhaad and Z. Akbari. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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