Theory of hydrogen permeance in a hydrothermally stable silica-alumina membrane

Pelin Hacarlioglu, Doohwan Lee, Yunfeng Gu, Ted S. Oyama

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Abstract

A hydrothermally stable hydrogen-selective membrane was prepared by multi-component chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of a thin silica-alumina layer on a porous g-alumina support in an inert atmosphere. This process placed a silica-alumina layer on the surface of the substrate by thermal decomposition of tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) and alumina-tri-sec-butoxide (ATSB) at high temperatureThe resulting composite membrane was selective for H2, He, D2 and Ne over CO, CO2 and CH4. The permeation of small gaseous species (He > H2 > D2 > Ne) did not follow mass or size of the permeating species. This unusual order of permeation was explained by a mechanism involving hopping of the gaseous species between adjacent solubility sites. The geometries of the ring clusters were obtained by energy minimization of the structures using a density functional theory (DFT) method in Gaussian 98.

Original languageEnglish
JournalACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts
StatePublished - 2010
Event239th ACS National Meeting and Exposition - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: 21 Mar 201025 Mar 2010

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