(396f) Fabrication of Silicon Carbide Sintered Supports and Silicon Carbide Membranes
AIChE Annual Meeting
2013
2013 AIChE Annual Meeting
Separations Division
Poster Session: Membranes
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Fabrication of Silicon Carbide Sintered Supports and Silicon Carbide Membranes
Wangxue Deng, Xiaojie Yan, Muhammad Sahimi, and Theodore T. Tsotsis٭
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211, USA
Abstract
Efficient separation of H2 under high temperatures and pressures is fundamental to the development of clean energy industry, and has driven the research on inorganic membranes for two decades. Although several types of nanoporous membranes have been prepared, the fabrication of high-temperature and steam-stable inorganic membranes with high fluxes and large separation factors still remains a challenge. Of all the potential membrane materials, silicon carbide (SiC) is particularly promising due to its high temperature/corrosion resistance, high thermal conductivity, and excellent chemical/mechanical stability. In this work, we prepared highly permeable, mechanically strong porous SiC tubular supports for fabrication of nanoporous SiC membranes. We systematically investigated the effects of sintering temperature, the amount of sintering aids, the composition of the starting particles, and surface modifications on the transport characteristics of sintered SiC supports. The best SiC supports exhibit a He permeance of 5.82×10-5 mol•m-2•Pa-1•s-1, which is two orders of magnitude larger than the permeance of supports we previously prepared, and also 3~10 times larger than those of similar supports reported by other groups. These substrates are also mechanically strong, as manifested by their Vickers hardness tests. Moreover, we have fabricated nanoporous SiC membranes on such tubular supports by pyrolysis of thin allyl-hydridopolycarbosilane (AHPCS) films coated using slip-casting and dip-coating techniques, combined with a sacrificial polystyrene inter-layer method. These SiC membranes showed great improvement on both permeance and selectivity compared to our previous membranes.
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