Unary permeation experiments were performed with He, H
2, CO
2, N
2, O
2, CO, Ar, and CH
4 across a SAPO-34 membrane at 295 K with upstream pressures ranging to 7.2 MPa, ensuring that high occupancies withinthe zeo
lite layer are reached. Careful analysis of the unary permeation experiments shows that the Maxwell-Stefan (M-S) diffusivity
i is loading-dependent for all gases except He and H
2. The model of Reed andEhr
lich (
Surf. Sci. 1981,
102, 588-609) was used to describe the loading-dependence of
i. The zero-loadingdiffusivity
i(0) and the Reed-Ehr
lich parameter
i are backed out from the permeation experiments, providinga complete description of
i as a function of loading,
qi. Permeation experiments for CO
2/CH
4, CO
2/N
2,N
2/CH
4, H
2/CH
4, H
2/N
2, H
2/CO, and CO
2/CH
4/N
2 mixtures were performed to determine to what extent loading-dependent M-S diffusivities influence permeation fluxes and selectivities. Good agreement between the M-Smixture model and experiments are obtained, provided the binary exchange coefficients
ij in the M-S uationsare assumed to have high enough values to ensure that intercage hops of the molecules occur practicallyindependently of one other.