“…The influence of temperature on pervaporation is commonly studied, because it is expected that the diffusion rate of molecules will increase with temperature. As consequence, the permeate flux increases, usually following an Arrhenius-type relation (29), as shown in equation (12). Other parameters, such the total flux, permeate concentration and enrichment factor, also exhibit a similar relationship (27,32,37,47-49): (12) in which N 0 i is the pre-exponential factor, E a,i is the apparent activation energy, R is the gas constant and T is the feed absolute temperature.…”