Membrane Engineering for the Treatment of Gases, Volume 2: Gas-separation Problems Combined with Membrane Reactors
By RSC Publishing
2011 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 1849732396 | PDF | 35 MB
Membranes already have important applications in artificial organs, theprocessing of biotechnological products, food manufacture, waste watertreatment, and seawater desalination. Their uses in gaseous mixture separationsare, however, far from achieving their full potential. Separation of aircomponents, natural gas dehumidification and sweeting, separation and recoveryof CO2 from biogas, and H2 from refinery gases are all examples of currentindustrial applications. The use of membranes for reducing the greenhouseeffect and improving energy efficiency has also been suggested. New processintensification strategies in the petrochemical industry have opened up anothergrowth area for gas separation membrane systems and membrane reactors. This twovolume set presents the state-of-the-art in membrane engineering for theseparation of gases. It addresses future developments in carbon capture andutilization, H2 production and purification, and O2/N2 separation. Topicscovered include the: applications of membrane gas separation in thepetrochemical industry; implementation of membrane processes forpost-combustion capture; commercial applications of membranes in gasseparations; simulation of membrane systems for CO2 capture; design anddevelopment of membrane reactors for industrial applications; Pd-basedmembranes in hydrogen production; modelling and simulation of membrane reactorsfor hydrogen production and purification; novel hybrid membrane/pressure swingadsorption process for gas separation; molecular dynamics as a new tool formembrane design, and physical aging of membranes for gas separations. Volume 2looks at problems combined with membrane reactors.
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