Subtle penetrant size effects on separation of carbon molecular sieve membranes derived from $\mathrm{6FDA:BPDA}$-$\mathrm{DAM}$ polyimide

Arab, Pezhman; Liu, Zhongyun; Nasser, Mostafa; Qiu, Wulin; Martinez, Marcos; Flick, Derrick; Roy, Abhishek; Liu, Junqiang; Koros, William J.

doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2021.08.005

Subtle penetrant size effects on separation of carbon molecular sieve membranes derived from $$\mathrm{6FDA:BPDA}$$-$$\mathrm{DAM}$$ polyimide

Journal Article · Fri Aug 13 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Carbon

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2021.08.005· OSTI ID:1976905

Arab, Pezhman ^[1]; Liu, Zhongyun ^[2]; Nasser, Mostafa ^[2]; Qiu, Wulin ^[2]; Martinez, Marcos ^[3]; Flick, Derrick ^[3]; Roy, Abhishek ^[3]; Liu, Junqiang ^[3]; ^[2]

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States); OSTI
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX (United States)

Economically scalable carbon molecular sieve (CMS) hollow fiber membranes rely upon a tunable bimodal pore morphology to separate gas pairs using angstrom-level size discrimination. Freshly formed CMS membranes experience self-retarding physical aging, reflected by permeance losses and selectivity gains that stabilize over short times compared to the lifetime of the membrane. Self-retarding morphology rearrangements are of special interest here due to tightening of the largest size range of ultramicropores, thereby causing aging for polyimide-derived CMS. We report effects of such aging for two A/B penetrant pairs, C₃H₆/C₃H₈ and CO₂/CH₄. These two pairs not only have different average sizes, $$\overline{d}_{A/B}$$, but also different size differences,Δd_A/B, between the members in each pair. We focus primarily on the C₃H₆/C₃H₈ pair, which is the most difficult of the two pairs to separate, and use some CO₂/CH₄ results as a comparison case. We study CMS derived from 6FDA:BPDA-DAM (1:1) polyimide by pyrolysis at 550 °C, 600 °C and 650 °C. Here we suggest conditions and physical causes that expedite, retard or even suppress the aging process within CMS membranes. Finally, we suggest how analysis of CMS derived from other precursors and other penetrant pairs can be generalized by understanding the results for the 6FDA:BPDA-DAM (1:1) polyimide derived CMS.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: Dow Chemical Company; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-04ER15510

OSTI ID:: 1976905

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1813884

Journal Information:: Carbon, Journal Name: Carbon Journal Issue: C Vol. 184; ISSN 0008-6223

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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