Multiscale models of sweep gas and porous support effects on zeolite membranes

AIChE Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 867-877

  Skoulidas, Anastasios I ^a   Sholl, David S ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational chemistry (kinetics thermo); Membrane materials; Membrane separations; Multiscale simulations; Zeolites

Indexed keywords

GAS PERMEATION; SWEEP GASES; ZEOLITE CRYSTALS; ZEOLITE MEMBRANES;

ADSORPTION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFUSION IN GASES; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; METHANE; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PERMSELECTIVE MEMBRANES; POROUS MATERIALS; THIN FILMS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ZEOLITES;

MEMBRANE; MODEL; ZEOLITE;

EID: 15944377865     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10335     Document Type: Article

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