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High flux freeze‐dried cellulose acetate reverse osmosis membranes as microporous barriers in gas permeation and separation
Author(s) -
Agrawal J. P.,
Sourirajan S.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.1970.070140517
Subject(s) - membrane , reverse osmosis , permeation , chemical engineering , cellulose acetate , chemistry , methane , nitrogen , microporous material , chromatography , cellulose , forward osmosis , materials science , organic chemistry , biochemistry , engineering
The permeations of helium, hydrogen, methane, ethylene, nitrogen, and argon, and helium–methane, nitrogen–ethylene, oxygen–nitrogen, and sulfur dioxide–nitrogen mixtures have been studied using freeze‐dried porous cellulose acetate reverse osmosis membranes. The results illustrate the existence of mobile and immobile sorbed layers and the governing influence of surface flow in gas‐phase reverse osmosis separations. Preshrunk freeze‐dried porous cellulose acetate membranes seem to offer a practical means of utilizing the reverse osmosis process for recovering helium from natural gas and separating sulfur dioxide from flue gases.