The multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) dispersed polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) composite membranes have been prepared for hydrogen gas permeation application. Composite membranes are characterized by Raman spectroscopy, optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, electrical measurements and gas permeability measurements. The effect of electric field alignment of MWCNT in PMMA matrix on gas permeat...

Gas separation only became a major industrial application of membrane technology in the past 30 years, but the study of gas permeation through membranes has a long history. Systematic studies began with Thomas Graham who, over a period of 20 years, measured the permeation rates of all the gases then known, through every diaphragm available to him [1]. This was no small task because his experime...

It is highly desirable to reduce the membrane thickness in order to maximize the throughput and break the trade-off limitation for membrane-based gas separation. Two-dimensional membranes composed of atomic-thick graphene or graphene oxide nanosheets have gas transport pathways that are at least three orders of magnitude higher than the membrane thickness, leading to reduced gas permeation flux...

Supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) has the potential to be a new technological platform for gas/organic vapour separation because of the unique non-volatile nature and discriminating gas dissolution properties of room temperature ionic liquids (ILs). This work starts with an examination of gas dissolution and transport properties in bulk imidazulium cation based ionic liquids [C(n)mim][NT...

Membrane extraction has been interfaced with gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy for the analysis of volatile organics in water. The vacuum in a mass spectrometer provides fast mass transport. The time required to complete permeation in a GC interface can be fairly long, because the positive pressure of the carrier gas on the permeate side slows down the analyte permeation. The aqueous bou...

In this work, we describe a numerical method which enables an efficient computation of membrane gas permeation processes that involve multiple membrane stages and multiple gas components. The utilized numerical approach is a collocation method equipped with a grid adaptation strategy based on a dependable error estimate of the numerical approximation. The comparison of the results provided by t...

Plasma-driven permeation (PDP) and gas-driven permeation (GDP) through a first wall candidate material F82H have been investigated using a laboratory-scale steady state plasma facility. Experiments indicate that GDP may take place in the opposite direction of PDP, which then results in an unwanted increase in edge plasma density. A hydrogen flow from the plasma side to the gas side has also bee...

in this research, the characteristics of cmp dioxane lignin (hardwood origin) and soda bagasse lignin (ethanol soluble fraction) and dioxane lignin of bagasse were studied using gel permeation chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and 13c nmr spectroscopy and dfrc degradation procedure. the results indicated that the main structural units in lignins are phenyl propane skeletons b...