Journal
POLYMER TESTING
Volume 73, Issue -, Pages 1-11Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2018.10.036
Keywords
Cellulose acetate; Hollow fiber membrane; Spinning parameters; Post-treatment; Gases separation
Funding
- Graduate Assistance Scheme of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
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In the current work, effect of spinning conditions including, take-up speed and air-gap distance and post-treatment methods on the fabrication of cellulose acetate hollow fiber membranes (CA-HFMs) for CO2/N-2 and CO2/CH4 separations have been reported. The gas permeation results obtained in this work revealed that permeances of gases were decreased with increase in take-up speed from free fall to 12.2 m/min. Meanwhile, gas pair selectivities increased with increasing take-up speed. Subsequently, increment in air-gap distance produced the V pattern for gases permeances and A pattern of gas pair selectivities for all CA-HFMs spun at different take-up speeds. Therefore, optimum take-up speed and air gap distance of CA-HFMs of 12.2 m/min and 5.0 cm were obtained, respectively. CA-HFM spun at optimum spinning conditions showed the highest CO2/CH4 and CO2/N-2 ideal selectivities of 7.9 and 6.0, respectively. On the other hand, permeation results also demonstrated that the CO2/CH4 and CO2/N-2 ideal selectivities of PDMS coated CA-HFMs were higher about 70.9% and 84.1%, respectively, compared to those values obtained from thermally treated CA-HFMs. Therefore, PDMS coating is considered as an effective approach to seal the macro-voids of HFMs compared to the thermal treatment in order to achieve higher permeation performance for CO2 separations. In addition, permeation results also manifested that the CA-HFM fabricated at optimum conditions has incredible worth from the prospective of industrial separations of CO2 from flue and natural gas.
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