Current status of ceramic-based membranes for oxygen separation from air.
There has been tremendous progress in membrane technology for gas separation, in particular oxygen separation from air in the last 20 years. It provides an alternative route to the existing conventional separation processes such as cryogenic distillation and pressure swing adsorption as well as cheaper production of oxygen with high purity. This review presents the recent advances of ceramic membranes for the separation of oxygen from air at high temperature. It covers the issues and problems with respect to the selectivity and separation performance. The paper also presents different approaches applied to overcome these challenges. The future directions of ceramic-based membranes for oxygen separation from air are also presented.
Hashim
Salwa Meredith
SM
School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia.
Mohamed
Abdul Rahman
AR
Bhatia
Subhash
S
D000388:Air / Q000032:analysis*; D002516:Ceramics / Q000737:chemistry*; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D010100:Oxygen / Q000302:isolation & purification*
D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D010100:Oxygen