Effective Modelling of Industrial Scale Membrane Gas Separation Processes

Abstract

Membrane gas separation is now a mature technology for a number of applications such as hydrogen (H2) recovery from ammonia purge gas streams, natural gas sweetening for carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S) removal, and air separation for nitrogen (N2) enrichment. There are numerous other applications for which membrane gas separation technology holds promise. Mathematical models of membrane gas separation enable the viability, separation performance and membrane system characteristics to be determined for emerging gas separation applications, hence these models are very important in engineering membrane-based processes. A significant number of membrane gas separation models have..