Journal
MEMBRANES
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/membranes12010071
Keywords
CO2 removal; plasticization; aging; contaminants; polymeric membrane; mixed gas
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Funding
- Petroleum Research Fund (PRF)
- PETRONAS [E.025.GST.02019.005]
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Membranes are a promising technology for separating CO2 from natural gas mixtures, but scaling up to field testing is challenging due to stability and performance issues. This review addresses the challenges in applying polymeric technology for CO2 separation, focusing on plasticization and aging. Recent advancements and techniques have been highlighted to overcome these challenges.
Membranes are a promising technology for bulk CO2 separation from natural gas mixtures due to their numerous advantages. Despite the numerous fundamental studies on creating better quality membrane efficiency, scaling up the research work for field testing requires huge efforts. The challenge is to ensure the stability of the membrane throughout the operation while maintaining its high performance. This review addresses the key challenges in the application of polymeric technology for CO2 separation, focusing on plasticization and aging. A brief introduction to the properties and limitations of the current commercial polymeric membrane is first deliberated. The effect of each plasticizer component in natural gas towards membrane performance and the relationship between operating conditions and the membrane efficiency are discussed in this review. The recent technological advancements and techniques to overcome the plasticization and aging issues covering polymer modification, high free-volume polymers, polymer blending and facilitated transport membranes (FTMs) have been highlighted. We also give our perspectives on a few main features of research related to polymeric membranes and the way forwards. Upcoming research must emphasize mixed gas with CO2 including minor condensable contaminants as per real natural gas, to determine the competitive sorption effect on CO2 permeability and membrane selectivity. The effects of pore blocking, plasticization and aging should be given particular attention to cater for large-scale applications.
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