Reducing CO2 in the atmosphere and preventing its release from point-source emitters, such as coal and natural gas-fired power plants, is a global challenge measured in gigatons. Capturing CO2 at this scale will require a portfolio of gas-separation technologies to be applied over a range of applications in which the gas mixtures and operating conditions will vary. Chemical scrubbing using abso...

Greenhouse gas CO2 emissions to the atmosphere are believed to be the primary reason for the global warming. One effective way to mitigate CO2 emissions is to capture CO2 from post-combustion flue gas in coal-fired power plants. Membrane technology has been widely explored for this application due to its high energy-efficiency. Current membrane materials are often based on poly(ethylene oxide) ...

The increasing level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is a big threat to the environment and plays a key role towards global warming and climate change. In this context to combat such issues, polymeric ionic liquids (PILs) serve as potential substitutes that offer an extremely versatile and tunable platform to fabricate a wide variety of sorbents for CO2 capture, in particular, for flu...

The purpose of this project is to develop hydrogen and CO2 selective membranes to allow combination of natural gas reforming with H2 or CO2 separation in separation enhanced reactors, i.e. membrane reactors, for carbon-free hydrogen production or electricity generation. To achieve this, the project comprises three distinct tasks: system and reactor analysis, membrane materials research and cata...

Pervaporation and gas separation performances of polymer membranes can be improved by crosslinking or addition of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Crosslinked copolyimide membranes show higher plasticization resistance and no significant loss in selectivity compared to non-crosslinked membranes when exposed to mixtures of CO2/CH4 or toluene/cyclohexane. Covalently crosslinked membranes reveal b...

Graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets were engineered to be assembled into laminar structures having fast and selective transport channels for gas separation. With molecular-sieving interlayer spaces and straight diffusion pathways, the GO laminates endowed as-prepared membranes with excellent preferential CO2 permeation performance (CO2 permeability: 100 Barrer, CO2/N2 selectivity: 91) and extraordin...

Ionic liquids have been explored as attractive alternative media for CO2 separation not only due to their low volatility but also due to their highly tuneable nature. Aiming at designing highly efficient liquid phases for flue gas separation and natural gas purification, this work focuses on the use of binary ionic liquid mixtures containing sulfate and/or cyano-functionalized anions. Several m...

Matrimid®5218 hollow fiber membranes were prepared using the dry-wet spinning process. The transport properties were measured with pure gases (H2, CO2, N2, CH4 and O2) and with a mixture (30% CO2 and 70% N2) in dry and wet conditions at 25 °C, 50 °C, 60 °C and 75 °C and up to 600 kPa. Interesting values of single gas selectivity up to 60 °C (between 31 and 28 for CO2/N2 and between 33 and 30 fo...

Defect free MFI type silicalite-1 membranes have been fabricated inside tubular TiO2 ceramic supports to be used for the separation of greenhouse gases. In this work, single gas permeance experiments have been conducted. The results of which in conjunction with adsorption isotherms for each gas investigated have been used to calculate the effective diffusivities of N2, CH4, and CO2. The permean...