TY - JOUR
T1 - Design of a membrane plant for gas sweetening based on new polyimide membranes
AU - Palomeque-Santiago, J. F.
AU - Guzmán, J.
AU - Guzmán-Lucero, D. J.
AU - Jiménez-Martínez, C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - A family of four new polyimides was synthesized with different CO2 and CH4 transport properties from fluorinated diaminotriphenylmethane and four different dianhydrides. The transport properties were used to simulate a gas membrane sweetening process in order to study their effect on the economy of the process. The membrane with the highest CO2/CH4 selectivity achieved the best performance for getting the product into specification, requiring less membrane area, obtaining higher methane recovery and lower gas processing cost (GPC). The effect of pressure feed was obtained by adding a second compressor to the feed stream; the results showed that the GPC exhibited an opposite trend to that of typical studies, increasing it with pressure; an explanation of this behavior is presented. The effect of feed flow on the GPC remained constant and presenting a linear behavior with membrane selectivity.
AB - A family of four new polyimides was synthesized with different CO2 and CH4 transport properties from fluorinated diaminotriphenylmethane and four different dianhydrides. The transport properties were used to simulate a gas membrane sweetening process in order to study their effect on the economy of the process. The membrane with the highest CO2/CH4 selectivity achieved the best performance for getting the product into specification, requiring less membrane area, obtaining higher methane recovery and lower gas processing cost (GPC). The effect of pressure feed was obtained by adding a second compressor to the feed stream; the results showed that the GPC exhibited an opposite trend to that of typical studies, increasing it with pressure; an explanation of this behavior is presented. The effect of feed flow on the GPC remained constant and presenting a linear behavior with membrane selectivity.
KW - Natural gas sweetening
KW - Polyimide membranes
KW - Process simulation
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U2 - 10.24275/uam/izt/dcbi/revmexingquim/2018v17n3/Palomeque
DO - 10.24275/uam/izt/dcbi/revmexingquim/2018v17n3/Palomeque
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85053008281
SN - 1665-2738
VL - 17
SP - 1083
EP - 1093
JO - Revista Mexicana de Ingeniera Quimica
JF - Revista Mexicana de Ingeniera Quimica
IS - 3
ER -