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Highly permeable and selective polymeric blend mixed matrix membranes for CO2/CH4 separation

Marjan Farnam, Hilmi bin Mukhtar, and Azmi bin Mohd Shariff

Polymer Engineering Division, Vancouver, Canada

 

E-mail: farnam.mm@gmail.com

Received: 25 December 2020  Accepted: 15 June 2021

Abstract:

Polymeric blend mixed matrix membranes (PB3Ms) are synthesized with different blend compositions at a fixed content of carbon molecular sieve (CMS) inorganic filler. The resulting membranes are characterized by FESEM, TGA, DSC and FTIR analyses. Polyethersulfone (PES)/polyvinyl acetate (PVAc)/CMS polymeric blend mixed matrix membranes are prepared by solution casting method. A homogenous mixture of all these components is formed and cast on a clean glass plate. The produced PB3Ms show drastic enhancement in CO2 permeance and CO2/CH4 selectivity in both single and mixed gas permeation tests in comparison with pure PES membrane. Significant CO2 permeance of 132.47 GPU with CO2/CH4 selectivity of 75.27 at 6 bar is obtained for the PB3M having 80 wt%/20 wt% blend ratio of PES/PVAc and 20 wt% CMS loading. The synthesized polymeric blend mixed matrix membranes in this research study demonstrate competitive CO2/CH4 separation performance in comparison with the reported literature on PB3Ms for gas separation.

Keywords: Carbon molecular sieve; CO2 separation; Mixed matrix membrane; Polymer blend

Full paper is available at www.springerlink.com.

DOI: 10.1007/s11696-021-01744-2

 

Chemical Papers 75 (11) 5663–5685 (2021)

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