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Abdul Majid O, Kuznetsova M, Castel C, Favre E, Hreiz R. Impact of Concentration Polarization Phenomena on Gas Separation Processes with High-Performance Zeolite Membranes: Experiments vs. Simulations. MEMBRANES 2024; 14:41. [PMID: 38392668 PMCID: PMC10890629 DOI: 10.3390/membranes14020041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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Polarization phenomena play a key role in membrane separation processes but remain largely unexplored for gas separations, where the mass transfer resistance is most often limited to the membrane. This assumption, which is commonly used today for the simulation of membrane gas separations, has to be reconsidered when high-performance materials, showing a very high permeance and/or selectivity, are used. In this study, a series of steady-state separation performances experimentally obtained on CO2/CH4 mixtures with a zeolite membrane are compared to the predictions of a dedicated 1D approach, recently derived and validated through CFD simulations. Polarization effects are shown to generate a significant negative impact on the separation performances, both in terms of the productivity and separation efficiency. The 1D model predictions, based on pure gas permeance data and without any adjustable parameters, are in very good agreement with the experimental data. This fast and efficient modeling approach can easily be implemented in simulation or process synthesis programs for the rigorous evaluation of membrane gas separation processes, when high-performance materials are used.
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LRGP, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LRGP, F-54000 Nancy, France
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Foo K, Liang Y, Goh P, Fletcher D. Computational fluid dynamics simulations of membrane gas separation: Overview, challenges and future perspectives. Chem Eng Res Des 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2023.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Fernández A, Casado C, Alique D, Calles JA, Marugán J. Modeling of H 2 Permeation through Electroless Pore-Plated Composite Pd Membranes Using Computational Fluid Dynamics. MEMBRANES 2021; 11:membranes11020123. [PMID: 33572191 PMCID: PMC7915706 DOI: 10.3390/membranes11020123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Revised: 01/27/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This work focused on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of H2/N2 separation in a membrane permeator module containing a supported dense Pd-based membrane that was prepared using electroless pore-plating (ELP-PP). An easy-to-implement model was developed based on a source–sink pair formulation of the species transport and continuity equations. The model also included the Darcy–Forcheimer formulation for modeling the porous stainless steel (PSS) membrane support and Sieverts’ law for computing the H2 permeation flow through the dense palladium film. Two different reactor configurations were studied, which involved varying the hydrogen flow permeation direction (in–out or out–in). A wide range of experimental data was simulated by considering the impact of the operating conditions on the H2 separation, such as the feed pressure and the H2 concentration in the inlet stream. Simulations of the membrane permeator device showed an excellent agreement between the predicted and experimental data (measured as permeate and retentate flows and H2 separation). Molar fraction profiles inside the permeator device for both configurations showed that concentration polarization near the membrane surface was not a limit for the hydrogen permeation but could be useful information for membrane reactor design, as it showed the optimal length of the reactor.
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- Alberto Fernández
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Technology, Rey Juan Carlos University, C/Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles, Spain; (A.F.); (C.C.)
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Technology, Rey Juan Carlos University, C/Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles, Spain; (A.F.); (C.C.)
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- Department of Chemical, Energy and Mechanical Technology, Rey Juan Carlos University, C/Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles, Spain; (D.A.); (J.A.C.)
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- Department of Chemical, Energy and Mechanical Technology, Rey Juan Carlos University, C/Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles, Spain; (D.A.); (J.A.C.)
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Technology, Rey Juan Carlos University, C/Tulipán s/n, 28933 Móstoles, Spain; (A.F.); (C.C.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +34-91-488-7466
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Abdi H, Pourmahmoud N, Soltan J. A novel CFD simulation of H2 separation by Pd-based helical and straight membrane tubes. KOREAN J CHEM ENG 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11814-020-0657-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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A Computational Fluid Dynamics Approach for the Modeling of Gas Separation in Membrane Modules. Processes (Basel) 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/pr7070420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Natural gas demand has increased rapidly across the globe in the last decade, and it is set to play an important role in meeting future energy requirements. Natural gas is mainly produced from fossil fuel and is a side product of crude oil produced beneath the earth’s crust. Materials hazardous to the environment, like CO2, H2S, and C2H4, are present in raw natural gas. Therefore, purification of the gaseous mixture is required for use in different industrial applications. A comprehensive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was proposed to perform the separation of natural gas from other gases using membrane modules. The CFD technique was utilized to estimate gas flow variations in membrane modules for gas separation. CFD was applied to different membrane modules to study gas transport through the membrane and flux, and to separate the binary gas mixtures. The different parameters of membrane modules, like feed and permeate pressure, module length, and membrane thickness, have been investigated successfully. CFD allows changing the specifications of membrane modules to better configure the simulation results. It was concluded that in a membrane module with increasing feed pressure, the pressure gradient also increased, which resulted in higher flux, higher permeation, and maximum purity of the permeate. Due to the high purity of the gaseous product in the permeate, the concentration polarization effect was determined to be negligible. The results obtained from the proposed CFD approach were verified by comparing with the values available in the literature.
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Sommer DE, Kirchen P. Towards improved partial oxidation product yield in mixed ionic-electronic membrane reactors using CSTR and CFD modelling. Chem Eng Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2018.11.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Zhang Y, Zhang L, Hou L, Kuang S, Yu A. Modeling of the variations of permeate flux, concentration polarization, and solute rejection in nanofiltration system. AIChE J 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.16475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Yaqin Zhang
- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou, 310027 China
- ARC Research Hub for Computational Particle Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering Monash University Melbourne Victoria, 3800 Australia
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou, 310027 China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou, 310027 China
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- ARC Research Hub for Computational Particle Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering Monash University Melbourne Victoria, 3800 Australia
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- ARC Research Hub for Computational Particle Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering Monash University Melbourne Victoria, 3800 Australia
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Ma R, Castro-Dominguez B, Dixon AG, Ma YH. Scalability of multitube membrane modules for hydrogen separation: Technical considerations, issues and solutions. J Memb Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2018.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Comparison of the Simplification of the Pressure Profiles Solving the Binary Friction Model for Asymmetric Membranes. MEMBRANES 2017; 7:membranes7040058. [PMID: 28972561 PMCID: PMC5746817 DOI: 10.3390/membranes7040058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2017] [Revised: 09/21/2017] [Accepted: 09/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The gas flow through porous media including that of multiple species is frequently described by the binary friction model (BFM) considering the binary diffusion, Knudsen diffusion, and viscous flow. Therefore, a numerical simulation was performed on a microporous support of an asymmetric oxygen transport membrane. As its exact numerical solution is complicated and not always possible, the results of two different levels of simplification of the pressure profiles within the porous support are compared to the exact numerical solution. The simplification using a constant pressure equal to the gas pressure outside the support leads to a deviation by up to 0.45 mL·min−1·cm−2 from the exact solution under certain operating condition. A different simplification using a constant pressure averaged between the outside of the support and the support/membrane interface reduces this deviation to zero. Therefore, this is a useful measure to reduce computational efforts when implementing the Binary Friction Model in computational fluid dynamics simulations.
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Benguerba Y, Virginie M, Dumas C, Ernst B. Computational fluid dynamics study of the dry reforming of methane over Ni/Al2O3 catalyst in a membrane reactor. Coke deposition. KINETICS AND CATALYSIS 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0023158417030028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Performance of a pilot-scale multitube membrane module under coal-derived syngas for hydrogen production and separation. J Memb Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2016.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Unije U, Mücke R, Niehoff P, Baumann S, Vaßen R, Guillon O. Simulation of the effect of the porous support on flux through an asymmetric oxygen transport membrane. J Memb Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2016.10.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Murmura M, Cerbelli S, Turchetti L, Annesini M. Transport-permeation regimes in an annular membrane separator for hydrogen purification. J Memb Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.12.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Sweep gas flow effect on membrane reactor performance for hydrogen production from high-temperature water-gas shift reaction. J Memb Sci 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.09.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Benguerba Y, Amer J, Ernst B. CFD modeling of the H 2 /N 2 separation with a nickel/α-alumina microporous membrane. Chem Eng Sci 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.11.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Ji G, Wang G, Hooman K, Bhatia S, Diniz da Costa J. The fluid dynamic effect on the driving force for a cobalt oxide silica membrane module at high temperatures. Chem Eng Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Scale-Up Design Analysis and Modelling of Cobalt Oxide Silica Membrane Module for Hydrogen Processing. Processes (Basel) 2013. [DOI: 10.3390/pr1020049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Mathematical modeling of mass transfer in multicomponent gas mixture across the synthesized composite polymeric membrane. J IND ENG CHEM 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2012.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Farno E, Rezakazemi M, Mohammadi T, Kasiri N. Ternary gas permeation through synthesized pdms membranes: Experimental and CFD simulation basedon sorption-dependent system using neural network model. POLYM ENG SCI 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/pen.23555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Ehsan Farno
- Computer Aided Process Engineering Lab (CAPE); Faculty of Chemical Engineering; Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST); Narmak Tehran Iran
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- Research Centre for Membrane Separation Processes; Faculty of Chemical Engineering; Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST); Narmak Tehran Iran
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- Department of Chemical Engineering; Islamic Azad University; South Tehran Branch 11365-4435 Tehran Iran
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- Computer Aided Process Engineering Lab (CAPE); Faculty of Chemical Engineering; Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST); Narmak Tehran Iran
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Ji G, Wang G, Hooman K, Bhatia S, Diniz da Costa JC. Computational fluid dynamics applied to high temperature hydrogen separation membranes. Front Chem Sci Eng 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s11705-011-1161-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Byron Smith R, Muruganandam L, Murthy Shekhar S. CFD analysis of water gas shift membrane reactor. Chem Eng Res Des 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2011.02.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Gozálvez-Zafrilla J, Santafé-Moros A, Escolástico S, Serra J. Fluid dynamic modeling of oxygen permeation through mixed ionic–electronic conducting membranes. J Memb Sci 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2011.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Moradi Shehni P, Amooghin AE, Ghadimi A, Sadrzadeh M, Mohammadi T. Modeling of unsteady-state permeation of gas mixture through a self-synthesized PDMS membranes. Sep Purif Technol 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2010.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Coroneo M, Montante G, Catalano J, Paglianti A. Modelling the effect of operating conditions on hydrodynamics and mass transfer in a Pd–Ag membrane module for H2 purification. J Memb Sci 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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