Dense film polyimide membranes for aggressive sour gas feed separations

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 428, Issue , 2013, Pages 608-619

  Kraftschik, Brian ^a   Koros, William J ^a   Johnson, J R ^a   Karvan, Oguz ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrogen sulfide; Natural gas purification; Polyimide membranes; Sour gas

Indexed keywords

ACID GAS; ANNEALED FILMS; CELLULOSE ACETATES; DENSE FILMS; FEED PRESSURE; FIELD OPERATION; GAS SEPARATIONS; GLASSY POLYMERS; MIXED GAS; MIXED GAS PERMEATION; PERMEATION EXPERIMENTS; PLASTICIZATION EFFECTS; POLYIMIDE MEMBRANES; PURE COMPONENTS; PURE GAS; RUBBERY POLYMERS; SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL; SOUR NATURAL GAS; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DESULFURIZATION; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NATURAL GAS; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PERMEATION; POLYIMIDES; SEPARATION; SORPTION; SOUR GAS;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLASS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; PLASTICIZER; POLYIMIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; FILM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GAS PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUR GAS SEPARATION; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 84871412037     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.10.025     Document Type: Article

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