Surprising olefin/paraffin separation performance recovery of highly aged carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes by a super-hyperaging treatment

Qiu, Wulin; Xu, Liren; Liu, Zhongyun; Liu, Yang; Arab, Pezhman; Brayden, Mark; Martinez, Marcos; Liu, Junqiang; Roy, Abhishek; Koros, William J.

doi:10.1016/j.memsci.2020.118701

Surprising olefin/paraffin separation performance recovery of highly aged carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes by a super-hyperaging treatment

Journal Article · Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2021 · Journal of Membrane Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2020.118701· OSTI ID:1849493

Qiu, Wulin ^[1]; Xu, Liren ^[2]; Liu, Zhongyun ^[3]; ^[3]; Arab, Pezhman ^[3]; Brayden, Mark ^[2]; Martinez, Marcos ^[2]; ^[2]; Roy, Abhishek ^[2]; Koros, William J. ^[3]

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
The Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX (United States)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Carbon molecular sieve (CMS) hollow fibers derived from 6FDA₁:BPDA₁/DAM₂, a well-studied polyimide precursor with attractive propylene/propane separation performance, were purposely treated to simulate long time aging under storage conditions. A simple, efficient post-aging thermal-treatment regeneration termed “super-hyperaging” is shown here to recover C₃H₆ permeance with satisfactory C₃H₆/C₃H₈ selectivity. A super-hyperaging temperature around 280 °C in air is shown to provide an optimum tradeoff in permeance and selectivity for highly aged samples. The regenerated CMS membrane displays performance well beyond the polymer permeance-selectivity tradeoff upper bound, and a hypothetical mechanism for the super-hyperaging recovery of aged CMS fibers is discussed in this work.

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Research Organization:: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-04ER15510

OSTI ID:: 1849493

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1760923

Journal Information:: Journal of Membrane Science, Journal Name: Journal of Membrane Science Journal Issue: C Vol. 620; ISSN 0376-7388

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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