Abstract

"Zeolites are inorganic materials with intrinsic microporous properties. Basically they are aluminasilicates constituted from a three dimensional network of Si0(4) and A10(4) tetrahedra. This type of materials may have very interesting applications like adsorbents or molecular sieves. In this study, mass transfer properties of supported MFI zeolite membranes at high pressure are established using a new experimental methodology. The aim of this study was the analysis of the mass transfer of a compressed carbon dioxide through microporous zeolite membranes in order to characterize its structural parameters, identifying mass transfer mechanisms under high pressure conditions. This type of materials can be used like molecular sieves, since they present a crystalline structure with interstitial micropores of a mean pore diameter of 0.55 nm. For this purpose, we studied the mass transfer of high pressure C0(2) through microporous MFI zeolite membranes using a new experimental methodology in order to determine the permeance of carbon dioxide using an original apparatus operating in transient state. Carbon dioxide is used in experiments taking into account several applications reported in the literature coupling recovery or separation of this compound from gaseous solutions with inorganic molecular sieves. Values of flux (mol m""