Air separation properties of flat sheet homogeneous pyrolytic carbon membranes

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 177-188

  Singh Ghosal, Anshu ^a   Koros, W J ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Air separation; Carbon molecular sieves; Entropic selectivity; Membrane separations; Pyrolysis

Indexed keywords

AIR; CARBON; DIFFUSION IN GASES; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR SIEVES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PYROLYSIS; SEPARATION; SORPTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AIR SEPARATION; CARBON MOLECULAR SIEVE MEMBRANES; ENTROPIC SELECTIVITY; MEMBRANE SEPARATIONS; MOBILITY SELECTIVITY; PERMSELECTIVITY;

MEMBRANES;

PYROLYTIC CARBON;

AIR; CARBON; GAS-GAS SEPARATION; MOLECULAR SIEVE; PYROLYSIS;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROLYSIS;

EID: 0034738828     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-7388(00)00392-6     Document Type: Article

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