High performance mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) composed of ZIF-94 filler and 6FDA-DAM polymer

Miren Etxeberria-Benavides; Oana David; Timothy Johnson; Magdalena M. Łozińska; Angelica Orsi; Paul A. Wright; Stefan Mastel; Rainer Hillenbrand; Freek Kapteijn; Jorge Gascon

doi:10.1016/j.memsci.2017.12.033

High performance mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) composed of ZIF-94 filler and 6FDA-DAM polymer

Miren Etxeberria-Benavides^*, Oana David, Timothy Johnson, Magdalena M. Łozińska, Angelica Orsi, Paul A. Wright, Stefan Mastel, Rainer Hillenbrand, Freek Kapteijn, Jorge Gascon

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) using membranes for the separation of CO₂ holds great promise for the reduction of atmospheric CO₂ emissions from fuel combustion and industrial processes. Among the different process outlines, post-combustion CO₂ capture could be easily implemented in existing power plants. However, for this technology to become viable, new membrane materials have to be developed. In this article we present the development of high performance mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) composed of ZIF-94 filler and 6FDA-DAM polymer matrix. The CO₂/N₂ separation performance was evaluated by mixed gas tests (15CO₂:85N₂) at 25 °C and 1–4 bar transmembrane pressure difference. The CO₂ membrane permeability was increased by the addition of the ZIF-94 particles, maintaining a constant CO₂/N₂ selectivity of ~22. The largest increase in CO₂ permeability of ~ 200% was observed for 40 wt% ZIF-94 loading, reaching the highest permeability (2310 Barrer) at similar selectivity among 6FDA-DAM MMMs reported in literature. For the first time, the ZIF-94 metal organic framework crystals with particle size smaller than 500 nm were synthesized using nonhazardous solvent (tetrahydrofuran and methanol) instead of dimethylformamide (DMF) in a scalable process. Membranes were characterized by three non-invasive image techniques, i.e. SEM, AFM and nanoscale infrared imaging by scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM). The combination of these techniques demonstrates a very good dispersion and interaction of the filler in the polymer layer, even at very high loadings.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	198-207
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Membrane Science
Volume	550
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2017.12.033
State	Published - Mar 15 2018

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Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013) , under grant agreement no. 608490 , M4CO2 project, and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (national project MAT2015-65525-R ). The authors are very grateful to Gorka Imbuluzqueta (Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Spain) for the IR characterization of the samples. J.G. gratefully acknowledges support from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) , ERC Stg, Grant Agreement n. 335746 , CrystEng-MOF-MMM.

Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013), under grant agreement no. 608490, M4CO2 project, and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (national project MAT2015-65525-R). The authors are very grateful to Gorka Imbuluzqueta (Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Spain) for the IR characterization of the samples. J.G. gratefully acknowledges support from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013), ERC Stg, Grant Agreement n. 335746, CrystEng-MOF-MMM.

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Keywords

CO capture
Metal organic frameworks
Mixed matrix membrane
ZIF-94

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Biochemistry
Materials Science(all)
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Filtration and Separation

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