Butene isomers separation on titania supported MFI membranes at conditions relevant for practice

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Autoren

  • Hartwig Voß
  • Armin Diefenbacher
  • Gunter Schuch
  • Hannes Richter
  • Ingolf Voigt
  • Manfred Noack
  • Jürgen Caro

Externe Organisationen

  • BASF SE
  • Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme (IKTS)
  • Universität Rostock
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)11-17
Seitenumfang7
FachzeitschriftJournal of membrane science
Jahrgang329
Ausgabenummer1-2
Frühes Online-Datum30 Nov. 2008
PublikationsstatusElektronisch veröffentlicht (E-Pub) - 30 Nov. 2008

Abstract

MFI membranes (ZSM-5 and silicalite-1) prepared by secondary growth on the core side of tubular titania supports, have been evaluated in the C4 olefin isomers separation under elevated pressure. The membranes were synthesized according to much simpler methods than described in literature for high flux membranes. The MFI membranes were tested under technical conditions with an undiluted 50%/50% 1-butene/i-butene feed up to 21 bar feed pressure without any sweep gas or reduced pressure on the permeate side at a temperature of 130 °C. With increasing pressure difference across the membrane, the permselectivity - formed as the ratio of the 1-butene and i-butene permeances in the binary mixture - was found to decrease from initially PS ≈ 20 at 2 bar pressure difference to about PS ≈ 2-3 at 20 bar pressure difference. Like the mixture permselectivity the mixture separation factor α - calculated from the 1-butene mole fraction in the feed and permeate - drops as well with increasing pressure difference from initially α ≈ 10 at 2 bar to about α ≈ 2-3 at 20 bar pressure difference. The reason for this loss in selectivity with increasing pressure is the decrease of the 1-butene permeance from initially about 4 m3(STP)m-2 h-1 bar-1 at Δp = 2 bar to less than 1 m3(STP)m-2 h-1 bar-1 at Δp = 20 bar. In contrast, the i-butene permeance is low but rather pressure-independent and remains therefore nearly constant. Both the curved adsorption isotherms and the reduced diffusivities for increased loadings are responsible for the less than linear increase of the 1-butene flux and the decreasing of the 1-butene permeances in the binary mixture with increasing pressure. The molecular reason for the decreasing 1-butene/i-butene selectivity with increasing pressure is the collapse of the 1-butene diffusivity in the presence of increasing amounts of co-adsorbed i-butene. This behavior shows that the separation of the C4 olefins follows not a simple molecular sieving mechanism but is based on the interplay of mixture adsorption and mixture diffusion.

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Butene isomers separation on titania supported MFI membranes at conditions relevant for practice. / Voß, Hartwig; Diefenbacher, Armin; Schuch, Gunter et al.
in: Journal of membrane science, Jahrgang 329, Nr. 1-2, 30.11.2008, S. 11-17.

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Voß, H, Diefenbacher, A, Schuch, G, Richter, H, Voigt, I, Noack, M & Caro, J 2008, 'Butene isomers separation on titania supported MFI membranes at conditions relevant for practice', Journal of membrane science, Jg. 329, Nr. 1-2, S. 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2008.11.039
Voß, H., Diefenbacher, A., Schuch, G., Richter, H., Voigt, I., Noack, M., & Caro, J. (2008). Butene isomers separation on titania supported MFI membranes at conditions relevant for practice. Journal of membrane science, 329(1-2), 11-17. Vorabveröffentlichung online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2008.11.039
Voß H, Diefenbacher A, Schuch G, Richter H, Voigt I, Noack M et al. Butene isomers separation on titania supported MFI membranes at conditions relevant for practice. Journal of membrane science. 2008 Nov 30;329(1-2):11-17. Epub 2008 Nov 30. doi: 10.1016/j.memsci.2008.11.039
Voß, Hartwig ; Diefenbacher, Armin ; Schuch, Gunter et al. / Butene isomers separation on titania supported MFI membranes at conditions relevant for practice. in: Journal of membrane science. 2008 ; Jahrgang 329, Nr. 1-2. S. 11-17.
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