CO₂/N₂ separation using supported ionic liquid membranes with green and cost-effective [Choline][Pro]/PEG200 mixtures

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Tengteng Fan¹ ; Wenlong Xie¹ ; Xiaoyan Ji² ; Chang Liu¹ ; Xin Feng¹ ; ^{xfeng@njtech.edu.cn} ; Xiaohua Lu¹
• 关键词：CO2/N2 separation ; Supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) ; [Choline][Pro]/PEG200 ; Diffusion-reaction theory
• 刊名：Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：24
• 期：11
• 页码：1513-1521
• 全文大小：1168 K
• 卷排序：24

文摘

The high price and toxicity of ionic liquids (ILs) have limited the design and application of supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) for CO2 separation in both academic and industrial fields. In this work, [Choline][Pro]/polyethylene glycol 200 (PEG200) mixtures were selected to prepare novel SILMs because of their green and cost-effective characterization, and the CO2/N2 separation with the prepared SILMs was investigated experimentally at temperatures from 308.15 to 343.15 K. The temperature effect on the permeability, solubility and diffusivity of CO2 was modeled with the Arrhenius equation. A competitive performance of the prepared SILMs was observed with high CO2 permeability ranged in 343.3–1798.6 barrer and high CO2/N2 selectivity from 7.9 to 34.8. It was also found that the CO2 permeability increased 3 times by decreasing the viscosity of liquids from 370 to 38 mPa·s. In addition, the inherent mechanism behind the significant permeability enhancement was revealed based on the diffusion-reaction theory, i.e. with the addition of PEG200, the overall resistance was substantially decreased and the SILMs process was switched from diffusion-control to reaction-control.