Water Adsorption Effect on Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes in H2-CH4 Mixture at High Pressure
Author/s
Nordio, Maria L. V.; Medrano, José A.; van Sint Annaland, Martin; Pacheco Tanaka, David Alfredo; Llosa Tanco, Margot; [et al.]Date
2020-07Keywords
Carbon molecular sieve membrane
Water adsorption
Adsorption-diffusion mechanism
Knudsen mechanism
Pore size
Abstract
Carbon molecular sieve membranes (CMSMs) are emerging as promising solution to overcome the drawbacks of Pd-based membranes for H2 separation since (i) they are relatively easy to manufacture; (ii) they have low production and raw material costs; (iii) and they can work at conditions where polymeric and palladium membranes are not stable. In this work CMSMs have been investigated in pure gas and gas mixture tests for a proper understanding of the permeation mechanism, selectivity and purity towards hydrogen. No mass transfer limitations have been observed with these membranes, which represents an important advantage compared to Pd-Ag membranes, which suffer from concentration polarization especially at high pressure and low hydrogen concentrations. H2, CH4, CO2 and N2 permeation at high pressures and different temperatures in presence of dry and humidified stream (from ambient and water vapour) have been carried out to investigate the effect of the presence of water in the feed stream. ...
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