Highly Selective Oxygen/Nitrogen Separation Membrane Engineered Using a Porphyrin-Based Oxygen CarrierShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Membranes, E-ISSN 2077-0375, Vol. 9, no 9, article id 115
Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Air separation is very important from the viewpoint of the economic and environmental advantages. In this work, defect-free facilitated transport membranes based on poly(amide-12-b-ethylene oxide) (Pebax-2533) and tetra(p-methoxylphenyl)porphyrin cobalt chloride (T(p-OCH3)PPCoCl) were fabricated in systematically varied compositions for O2/N2 separation. T(p-OCH3)PPCoCl was introduced as carriers that selectively and reversibly interacted with O2 and facilitated O2 transport in the membrane. The T(p-OCH3)PPCoCl had good compatibility with the Pebax-2533 via the hydrogen bond interaction and formed a uniform and thin selective layer on the substrate. The O2 separation performance of the thin film composite (TFC) membranes was improved by adding a small amount of the T(p-OCH3)PPCoCl and decreasing the feed pressure. At the pressure of 0.035 MPa, the O2 permeability and O2/N2 selectivity of the 0.6 wt % T(p-OCH3)PPCoCl/Pebax-2533 was more than 3.5 times that of the Pebax-2533 TFC membrane, which reached the 2008 Robeson upper bound. It provides a candidate membrane material for O2/N2 efficient separation in moderate conditions
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI, 2019. Vol. 9, no 9, article id 115
Keywords [en]
facilitated transport membranes, cobalt porphyrin, oxygen/nitrogen separation, mixed matrix membrane, selectivity
National Category
Energy Engineering
Research subject
Energy Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-75963DOI: 10.3390/membranes9090115ISI: 000487746100017PubMedID: 31484439Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85073388398OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-75963DiVA, id: diva2:1350489
Note
Validerad;2019;Nivå 2;2019-09-11 (johcin)
2019-09-112019-09-112024-04-30Bibliographically approved