Fabrication of Defect-Free P84® Polyimide Hollow Fiber for Gas Separation: Pathway to Formation of Optimized Structure: Pathway to formation of optimized structure
Loading...
Identifiers
Publication date
2019-12
Advisors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Citations
Export
Abstract
The elimination of the additional defect healing post-treatment step in asymmetric hollow fiber manufacturing would result in a significant reduction in membrane production cost. However, obtaining integrally skinned polymeric asymmetric hollow fiber membranes with an ultrathin and defect-free selective layer is quite challenging. In this study, P84® asymmetric hollow fiber membranes with a highly thin (~56 nm) defect-free skin were successfully fabricated by fine tuning the dope composition and spinning parameters using volatile additive (tetrahydrofuran, THF) as key parameters. An extensive experimental and theoretical study of the influence of volatile THF addition on the solubility parameter of the N-methylpyrrolidone/THF solvent mixture was performed. Although THF itself is not a solvent for P84®, in a mixture with a good solvent for the polymer, like N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), it can be dissolved at high THF concentrations (NMP/THF ratio > 0.52). The as-spun fibers had a reproducible ideal CO2/N2 selectivity of 40, and a CO2 permeance of 23 GPU at 35 °C. The fiber production can be scaled-up with retention of the selectivity.
Description
Publisher Copyright: © 2019 by the authors.
Keywords
CO2/N2 separation , Hollow fiber spinning , Ultrathin skin layer , Defect-free fibers , CO2/N2 separation , Hollow fiber spinning , Ultrathin skin layer , Defect-free fibers , Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) , Process Chemistry and Technology , Filtration and Separation , Project ID , info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/608490/EU/Energy efficient MOF-based Mixed Matrix Membranes for CO2 Capture/M4CO2 , info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/608490/EU/Energy efficient MOF-based Mixed Matrix Membranes for CO2 Capture/M4CO2 , Funding Info , This research was funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013), grant agreement no. 608490, M4CO2 project. , This research was funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013), grant agreement no. 608490, M4CO2 project.
Type
Citation
Etxeberria-Benavides , M , Karvan , O , Kapteijn , F , Gascon , J & David , O 2019 , ' Fabrication of Defect-Free P84® Polyimide Hollow Fiber for Gas Separation: Pathway to Formation of Optimized Structure : Pathway to formation of optimized structure ' , Membranes , vol. 10 , no. 1 , 4 , pp. 4 . https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes10010004