Polybenzimidazole-derived carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes with tailored oxygen selective transport
Abstract
Polymer membrane carbonization is a promising strategy to obtain carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membrane materials with tailorable cavity size distributions for high gas selectivities beyond that attained from traditional polymer membrane materials. Despite their already demonstrated exceptional separation performance characteristics for several gas separation applications (e.g. CO2/CH4 and H2/CO2), further development of CMS membranes having high O2/N2 perm-selectivity for energy-efficient high-purity O2 production has proven challenging. Herein, we explore CMS hollow fiber membranes (HFMs) derived from highly rigid and tightly-packed polybenzimidazole (PBI) materials. Nearly defect-free PBI-derived CMS HFMs were fabricated and evaluated for O2/N2 separation performance for the first time. The micro-structural and O2 selective gas separation characteristics of PBI-CMS HFMs pyrolyzed at different pyrolysis conditions were intensively studied. With rigorous carbonization protocol optimization, we obtained highly O2 permselective PBI-CMS HFMs having O2/N2 selectivities approaching 14, enabling high purity O2 production. The PBI-CMS HFM O2/N2 separation performance dependence on operating conditions (e.g. temperature and feed pressure) are reported.
- Authors:
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Center for Microengineered Materials
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1846923
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1960657
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-22-21415
Journal ID: ISSN 0008-6223
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001; FE-1049-18-FY19
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Carbon
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 192; Journal ID: ISSN 0008-6223
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Carbon molecular sieve membrane; hollow fiber membrane; polybenzimidazole; oxygen enrichment; gas separation
Citation Formats
Seong, JongGeun, Lewis, Jeremy Charles, Thakkar, Harshul Vipul, Matteson, John Anthony, Berchtold, Kathryn A., Martinez, Ulises, Benavidez, Angelica D., and Singh, Rajinder Pal. Polybenzimidazole-derived carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes with tailored oxygen selective transport. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2022.02.033.
Seong, JongGeun, Lewis, Jeremy Charles, Thakkar, Harshul Vipul, Matteson, John Anthony, Berchtold, Kathryn A., Martinez, Ulises, Benavidez, Angelica D., & Singh, Rajinder Pal. Polybenzimidazole-derived carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes with tailored oxygen selective transport. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2022.02.033
Seong, JongGeun, Lewis, Jeremy Charles, Thakkar, Harshul Vipul, Matteson, John Anthony, Berchtold, Kathryn A., Martinez, Ulises, Benavidez, Angelica D., and Singh, Rajinder Pal. Thu .
"Polybenzimidazole-derived carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes with tailored oxygen selective transport". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2022.02.033. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1846923.
@article{osti_1846923,
title = {Polybenzimidazole-derived carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes with tailored oxygen selective transport},
author = {Seong, JongGeun and Lewis, Jeremy Charles and Thakkar, Harshul Vipul and Matteson, John Anthony and Berchtold, Kathryn A. and Martinez, Ulises and Benavidez, Angelica D. and Singh, Rajinder Pal},
abstractNote = {Polymer membrane carbonization is a promising strategy to obtain carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membrane materials with tailorable cavity size distributions for high gas selectivities beyond that attained from traditional polymer membrane materials. Despite their already demonstrated exceptional separation performance characteristics for several gas separation applications (e.g. CO2/CH4 and H2/CO2), further development of CMS membranes having high O2/N2 perm-selectivity for energy-efficient high-purity O2 production has proven challenging. Herein, we explore CMS hollow fiber membranes (HFMs) derived from highly rigid and tightly-packed polybenzimidazole (PBI) materials. Nearly defect-free PBI-derived CMS HFMs were fabricated and evaluated for O2/N2 separation performance for the first time. The micro-structural and O2 selective gas separation characteristics of PBI-CMS HFMs pyrolyzed at different pyrolysis conditions were intensively studied. With rigorous carbonization protocol optimization, we obtained highly O2 permselective PBI-CMS HFMs having O2/N2 selectivities approaching 14, enabling high purity O2 production. The PBI-CMS HFM O2/N2 separation performance dependence on operating conditions (e.g. temperature and feed pressure) are reported.},
doi = {10.1016/j.carbon.2022.02.033},
journal = {Carbon},
number = ,
volume = 192,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2022},
month = {Thu Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2022}
}
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