TY - JOUR
T1 - Highly stable bilayer MFI zeolite membranes for high temperature hydrogen separation
AU - Wang, Haibing
AU - Dong, Xueliang
AU - Lin, Jerry
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the U.S. Department of Energy ( DE-PS36-03GO93007 ) for this project. We would also like to acknowledge Prof. Panagiotis Smirniotis at University of Cincinnati for providing the catalyst used for water gas shift reaction in this work.
PY - 2014/1/5
Y1 - 2014/1/5
N2 - Stable inorganic membranes perm-selective to hydrogen will find applications in a number of important industrial processes including water gas shift reaction for hydrogen production. This paper reports a highly stable bilayer MFI zeolite membrane with good hydrogen separation characteristics. The membrane consists of a thin (2μm) ZSM-5 layer on a thick (8μm) silicalite base layer supported on macroporous α-alumina with a yttria stabilized zirconia intermediate barrier layer. The zeolitic pores of the thin ZSM-5 layer were narrowed by catalytic cracking deposition (CCD). At 500°C, the bilayer zeolite membrane exhibits H2 permeance of about 1.2×10-7molm-2s-1Pa-1, with H2 to CO2, CO and H2O vapor selectivity respectively of about 23, 28 and 180. The membrane shows slightly improved separation properties (H2 permeance, H2/CO and H2/CO2 selectivity) as the feed side pressure increases during the test of separation of industrial relevant simulated gas mixture (25% H2: 25% CO: 25% H2O: 25% CO2, with 400ppm H2S) at 500°C for 24 days. Membrane reactor made of the bilayer zeolite membrane shows stable performance under water gas shift reaction conditions (500°C, H2O/CO=3, GHSV=60,000h-1, with a ceria doped iron oxide catalyst) in terms of CO conversion, H2 recovery, and H2 permeance and selectivity of the zeolite membrane. The unprecedented thermal and chemical stability and good separation properties of the bilayer zeolite membrane are related to its unique bilayer structure and synthesis methods.
AB - Stable inorganic membranes perm-selective to hydrogen will find applications in a number of important industrial processes including water gas shift reaction for hydrogen production. This paper reports a highly stable bilayer MFI zeolite membrane with good hydrogen separation characteristics. The membrane consists of a thin (2μm) ZSM-5 layer on a thick (8μm) silicalite base layer supported on macroporous α-alumina with a yttria stabilized zirconia intermediate barrier layer. The zeolitic pores of the thin ZSM-5 layer were narrowed by catalytic cracking deposition (CCD). At 500°C, the bilayer zeolite membrane exhibits H2 permeance of about 1.2×10-7molm-2s-1Pa-1, with H2 to CO2, CO and H2O vapor selectivity respectively of about 23, 28 and 180. The membrane shows slightly improved separation properties (H2 permeance, H2/CO and H2/CO2 selectivity) as the feed side pressure increases during the test of separation of industrial relevant simulated gas mixture (25% H2: 25% CO: 25% H2O: 25% CO2, with 400ppm H2S) at 500°C for 24 days. Membrane reactor made of the bilayer zeolite membrane shows stable performance under water gas shift reaction conditions (500°C, H2O/CO=3, GHSV=60,000h-1, with a ceria doped iron oxide catalyst) in terms of CO conversion, H2 recovery, and H2 permeance and selectivity of the zeolite membrane. The unprecedented thermal and chemical stability and good separation properties of the bilayer zeolite membrane are related to its unique bilayer structure and synthesis methods.
KW - Hydrogen separation
KW - Long-term stability
KW - Microporous membranes
KW - Stability
KW - Water gas shift
KW - Zeolite
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U2 - 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.08.030
DO - 10.1016/j.memsci.2013.08.030
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84885907726
SN - 0376-7388
VL - 450
SP - 425
EP - 432
JO - Journal of Membrane Science
JF - Journal of Membrane Science
ER -