Recent advances in gas separation by microporous ceramic membranes

✍ Scribed by N.K. Kanellopoulos (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 525
• Series: Membrane Science and Technology 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is dedicated to the rapidly growing field of microporous ceramic membranes with separating layers of pore diameter less than 2nm. The chapters of this book bring forward a wide range of issues, namely fundamentals of complex sorption and transport processes in micropore structures, highly innovative methods of preparation of microporous membranes and examples of their possible commercial applications. This book presents insights by distinguished investigators, who have contributed significantly to the advance of research efforts in the diverse topics described herein. Recently, significant progress has been made with respect to the development of novel microporous asymmetric membranes, mainly involving modification by means of deposition of additional material within the pores of the substrates. Most state-of-the-art technologies aiming in the development of microporous ceramic membrane are presented in the third section of the book. These include several material deposition methods and techniques on macroporous or mesoporous supports and substrates from the liquid or vapour phase, namely those involving sol-gel, zeolite and chemical vapour deposition techniques. In addition to the above-mentioned methods, the classical technique of carbonizing polymeric deposits along with one of the novel techniques of plasma-treating, organically deposited Langmuir-Blodgett films, are also presented. Nanophase mixed ionic-electron membranes for enhanced oxygen transport are described, which pose a strong candidacy for a number of significant commercial applications. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
List of contributors
Pages vii-ix

Preface
Pages xi-xiii
Nick Kanellopoulos

Membrane characterisation by combination of static and dynamic techniques Original Research Article
Pages 1-32
Th.A. Steriotis, K.L. Stefanopoulos, A.Ch. Mitropoulos, N.K. Kanellopoulos

In situ X-ray diffraction studies on micropore filling Original Research Article
Pages 35-66
T. Iiyama, T. Ohkubo, K. Kaneko

Neutron and ion beam scattering techniques Original Research Article
Pages 67-96
J.D.F. Ramsay

Application of pulsed field gradient NMR to characterize the transport properties of microporous membranes Original Research Article
Pages 97-108
W. Heink, J. Kärger, S. Vasenkov

Diffusion studies using quasi-elastic neutron scattering Original Research Article
Pages 109-137
H. Jobic

Frequency response method for the characterisation of microporous solids Original Research Article
Pages 139-186
Lovat V.C. Rees, Lijuan Song

Measurement of diffusion in porous solids by zero length column (ZLC) methods Original Research Article
Pages 187-212
Douglas M. Ruthven, Stefano Brandani

Characterisation of microporous materials by adsorption microcalorimetry Original Research Article
Pages 213-230
Philip Llewellyn

Simulation of adsorption in micropores Original Research Article
Pages 231-256
David Nicholson, Thanos Stubos

Molecular simulation of transport in a single micropore Original Research Article
Pages 257-296
David Nicholson, Karl Travis

Simulation of gas transport in a “Network of micropores”. The effect of pore structure on transport properties Original Research Article
Pages 297-322
E.S. Kikkinides, M.E. Kainourgiakis, N.K. Kanellopoulos

Microporous carbon membranes Original Research Article
Pages 323-334
Shigeharu Morooka, Katsuki Kusakabe, Yoshihiro Kusuki

Microporous silica membranes Original Research Article
Pages 335-372
Nieck Benes, Arian Nijmeijer, Henk Verweij

Zeolite membranes Original Research Article
Pages 373-395
J.D.F. Ramsay, S. Kallus

Chemical vapor deposition membranes Original Research Article
Pages 397-416
M. Tsapatsis, G.R. Gavalas, G. Xomeritakis

Composite ceramic membranes from langmuir-blodgett and self-assembly precursors Original Research Article
Pages 417-434
K. Beltsios, E. Soterakou, N.K. Kanellopoulos

Nanophase ceramic ion transport membranes for oxygen separation and gas stream enrichment Original Research Article
Pages 435-471
C.G. Guizard, A.C. Julbe

Nanoporous carbon membranes for gas separation Original Research Article
Pages 473-496
S. Sircar, M.B. Rao

Microporous inorganic and polymeric membranes as catalytic reactors and membrane contactors Original Research Article
Pages 497-510
E. Drioli, A. Criscuoli