Membrane gas separation

Gas separation membranes offer a number of benefits over other separation technologies, and they play an increasingly important role in reducing the environmental impacts and costs of many industrial processes.

This book describes recent and emerging results in membrane gas separation, including highlights of nanoscience and technology, novel polymeric and inorganic membrane materials, new membrane approaches to solve environmental problems e.g. greenhouse gases, aspects of membrane engineering, and recent achievements in industrial gas separation. It includes:

Hyperbranched polyimides, amorphous glassy polymers and perfluorinated copolymers Nanocomposite (mixed matrix) membranes Polymeric magnetic membranes Sequestration of CO2 to reduce global warming Industrial applications of gas separation

Developed from sessions of the most recent International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes, Membrane Gas Separation gives a snapshot of the current situation, and presents both fundamental results and applied achievements.

Author Notes

Benny D.Freeman - Kenneth A. Kobe and Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek & American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professor of Chemical Engineering University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Resources. He researches in polymer science and engineering and, more specifically, in mass transport in polymers. His work in this field started in North Carolina State University, where he worked as assistant, associate professor and full professor during the period 1989-2002. In 2002 he moved to Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin and currently directs 18 Ph.D. students and one postdoctoral fellow performing fundamental research in mass transport in polymers. I have taught a variety of short courses in the membranes area for societies such the ACS, the North American Membrane Society, and the International Congress on Membranes. I have also taught a course on this topic at the graduate level at the university. I have co-edited 4 books. Professor Freeman will be the 2009 ACS Awardee in Polymer Science in 2009.

Yuri Yampolskii, Professor, Head of Laboratory of membrane gas separation, A.V.Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Moscow, Russia. Since the middle of 70s has been engaged in the studies of membrane separation, polymer physical chemistry and related subjects. At present he is Head of the laboratory dealing with the problems of membrane separation and pervaporation, gas permeation properties of various polymeric materials, vapor separation processes, sorption thermodynamics, free volume in polymers. He has published about 200 papers in peer reviewed journals and authored or co-authored several books.

Preface

Contributors

I Novel Membrane Materials and Transport in Them

1 Synthesis and Gas Permeability of Hyperbranched and Cross-linked Polyimide MembranesShinji Kanehashi and Shuichi Sato and Kazukiyo Nagai

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Molecular Designs for Membranes

1.3 Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polyimides

1.4 Gas Permeation Properties

1.5 Concluding Remarks

References

2 Gas Permeation Parameters and Other Physicochemical Properties of a Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIM-1)Peter M. Budd and Neil B. McKeown and Detlev Fritsch and Yuri Yampolskii and Victor Shantarovich

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The PIM concept

2.3 Gas Adsorption

2.4 Gas Permeation

2.5 Inverse Gas Chromatography

2.6 Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy

2.7 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

3 Addition-type Polynorbornene with Si(CH3)3 Side Groups: Detailed Study of Gas Permeation, Free Volume and Thermodynamic PropertiesYuri Yampolskii and Ludmila Starannikova and Nikolai Belov and Maria Gringolts and Eugene Finkelshtein and Victor Shantarovich

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Experimental

3.3 Results and Discussion

3.4 Conclusions

References

4 Amorphous Glassy Perfl uoropolymer Membranes of Hyfl on AD: Free Volume Distribution by Photochromic Probing and Vapour Transport PropertiesJohannes Carolus Jansen and Karel Friess and Elena Tocci and Marialuigia Macchione and Luana De Lorenzo and Matthias Heuchel and Yuri P. Yampolskii and Enrico Drioli

4.1 Introduction and Scope

4.2 Membrane Preparation

4.3 Free Volume Analysis

4.4 Molecular Dynamics Simulations

4.5 Transport Properties

4.6 Correlation of Transport and Free Volume

4.7 Conclusions

References

5 Modelling Gas Separation in Porous MembranesAaron W. Thornton and James M. Hill and Anita J. Hilli

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Background

5.3 Surface Diffusion

5.4 Knudsen Diffusion

5.5 Membranes: Porous Structures?

5.6 Transition State Theory (TST)

5.7 Transport Models for Ordered Pore Networks

5.8 Pore Size, Shape and Composition

5.9 The New Model

5.10 Conclusion

List of Symbols

References

II Nanocomposite (Mixed Matrix) Membranes

6 Glassy Perfl uorolymer-Zeolite Hybrid Membranes for Gas SeparationsGiovanni Golemme and Johannes Carolus Jansen and Daniela Muoio and Andrea Bruno and Raffaella Manes and Maria Giovanna Buonomenna and Jungkyu Choi and Michael Tsapatsis

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Materials and Methods

6.3 Results and Discussion

6.4 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

7 Vapor Sorption and Diffusion in Mixed Matrices Based on Tefl on® AF 2400Maria Chiara Ferrari and Michele Galizia and Maria Grazia De Angelis and Giulio Cesare Sarti

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Theoretical Background

7.3 Experimental

7.4 Results and Discussion

7.5 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

8 Physical and Gas Transport Properties of Hyperbranched Polyimide-Silica Hybrid MembranesTomoyuki Suzuki and Yasuharu Yamada and Jun Sakai and Kumi Itahashi

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Experimental

8.3 Results and Discussion

8.4 Conclusions

References

9 Air Enrichment by Polymeric Magnetic MembranesZbigniew J. Grzywna and Aleksandra Rybak and Anna Strzelewicz

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Formulation of the Problem

9.3 Experimental

9.4 Results and Discussion

9.5 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

List of Symbols

References

III Membrane Separation of CO2 from Gas Streams

10 Ionic Liquid Membranes for Carbon Dioxide SeparationChristina R. Myers and David R. Luebke and Henry W. Pennline and Jeffery B. Ilconich and Shan Wickramanayake

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Experimental

10.3 Results

10.4 Discussion

10.5 Conclusions

References

11 The Effects of Minor Components on the Gas Separation Performance of Polymeric Membranes for Carbon CaptureColin A. Scholes and Sandra E. Kentish and Geoff W. Stevens

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Sorption Theory for Multiple Gas Components

11.3 Minor Components

11.4 Conclusions

References

12 Tailoring Polymeric Membrane Based on Segmented Block Copolymers for CO2 SeparationAnja Car and Wilfredo Yave and Klaus-Viktor Peinemann and Chrtomir Stropnik

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Tailoring Block Copolymers with Superior Performance

12.3 Block Copolymers and their Blends with Polyethylene Glycol

12.4 Composite Membranes

12.5 Conclusions and Future Aspects

13 CO 2 Permeation with Pebax-based Membranes for Global Warming ReductionQuang Trong Nguyen and Julie Sublet and Dominique Langevin and Corinne Chappey and Stéphane Marais and Jean-Marc Valleton and Fabienne Poncin-Epaillard

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Experimental

13.3 Results and Discussions

13.4 Conclusions

References

IV Applied Aspects of Membrane Gas Separation

14 Membrane Engineering: Progress and Potentialities in Gas SeparationsAdele Brunetti and Paola Bernardo and Enrico Drioli and Giuseppe Barbieri

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Materials and Membranes Employed in GS

14.3 Membranes Applications in GS

14.4 New Metrics for Gas Separation Applications

15 Evolution of Natural Gas Treatment with Membrane SystemsLloyd S. White

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Market for Natural Gas Treatment

15.3 Amine Treaters

15.4 Contaminants and Membrane Performance

15.5 Cellulose Acetate versus Polyimide

15.6 Compaction in Gas Separations

15.7 Experimental

15.8 Laboratory Tests of Cellulose Acetate Membranes

15.9 Field Trials of Cellulose Acetate Membranes

15.10 Strategies for Reduced Size of Large-scale Membrane Systems

15.11 Research Directions

15.12 Summary

Acknowledgements

References

16 The Effect of Sweep Uniformity on Gas Dehydration Module PerformancePingjiao Hao and G. Glenn Lipscomb

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Theory

16.3 Results and Discussion

16.4 Conclusion

List of Symbols

References

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