期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 6, 期 16, 页码 13874-13883出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am503277t
关键词
block copolymer; composite membrane; alcohols; dehydration; pervaporation
资金
- National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore under Competitive Research Program (CRP) [NRF-CRP 5-2009-5]
- National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore (NUS) [R-279-000-311-281]
- Kraton Polymer Inc. [R-279-000-396-597]
Novel composite membranes comprising sulfonated styrenic Nexar pentablock copolymers were developed by dipcoating on poly(ether imide) hollow fibers for pervaporation dehydration of C2-C4 alcohols. The advantages of using block copolymers as the selective layer are (1) their effectiveness to synergize the physicochemical properties of different chemical and structural moieties and (2) tunable nanoscale morphology and nanostructure via molecular engineering. To achieve high-performance composite membranes, the effects of coating time, ion exchange capacity (IEC) of the copolymer, and solvent systems for coating were investigated. It is revealed that a minimum coating time of 30 s is needed for the formation of a continuous and less-defective top layer. A higher IEC value results in a membrane with a higher flux and lower separation factor because of enhanced hydrophilicity and stretched chain conformation. Moreover, the composite membranes prepared from hexane/ethanol mixtures show higher separation factors and lower fluxes than those from the hexane solvent owing to microdomain segregation induced by ethanol and a smooth and dense top selective layer. These hypotheses were verified by atomic force microscopy and positron annihilation spectroscopy. The newly developed composite membranes demonstrate impressive separation performance with fluxes exceeding 2 kg/m(2) h and separation factors more than 200 for isopropyl alcohol and n-butanol dehydration from 85/15 wt % alcohol/water feed mixtures at 50 degrees C.
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