Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial
support provided by the Department of Chemical Engineering
of the University Rovira i Virgili. We are
also grateful to the University Rovira i Virgili, which
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provided a pre-doctoral fellowship to Anton Dafinov.
As well, Josep Font thanks the post-doctoral fellowship
granted by the Scientific Program of the NATO,
and Dr. Yoram Cohen for his inestimable help during
his first steps in membrane research.