Microporous Carbon Membranes

Membranes for Membrane Reactors: Preparation, Optimization and Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 63-97

  Yoshimune, Miki ^a   Haraya, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon membrane and transport mechanism types; Carbon membranes, and classification of their gas transport mechanisms categories, as molecular sieving, surface diffusion, Knudsen diffusion, and viscous flow; Membrane applications in membrane reactor processes.; Microporous carbon membrane preparation microporous carbon membranes, and pyrolysing polymeric precursor membranes; Microporous carbon membranes; Microporous inorganic membranes of zeolites, silica, carbon, or similar materials; Pore structure adjustments; Post treatments, for adjusting pore size distribution repairing carbon membrane flaws; Pretreatments, in conditioning polymeric precursors before pyrolysis; Transport mechanisms in carbon membranes microporous carbon membranes, for gas separation having a turbostratic structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873727277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470977569.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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