Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Membrane gas separation and generation systems for the process and agriculture industries
- In
- Chemeca 90: The Eighteenth Australasian Chemical Engineering Conference; Processing Pacific Resources
- Imprint
- 1990, pp. 746-753
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.845079185191907
- Abstract
The first commercial membrane gas separation plant was installed in the late 70's for recovery of hydrogen from a purge gas stream in an ammonia plant. Since this time, membrane systems have found widespread use in a range of gas separation and enrichment applications. New applications are continually appearing as the technology develops and gains acceptance. Perhaps the most exciting recent development has been in the generation of nitrogen and oxygen enriched gases from air, where many hundreds of systems are now in operation.
The basic gas permeation process is introduced and illustrated with respect to oxygen and nitrogen separation from air and the full range of current and potential applications for this developing technology are reviewed.
