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Abdolreza Moghadassi

Abdolreza Moghadassi

Academic rank: Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0733-4540
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 25959677500
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Faculty: Engineering
Address: Arak University
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Research

Title
Advances in high carbon dioxide separation performance of poly (ethylene oxide)-based membranes
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Membrane gas separation; Molecular design; Poly (ethylene oxide); CO2 /CH4 separation
Year
2020
Journal Journal of Energy Chemistry
DOI
Researchers Samaneh Bandehali ، Abdolreza Moghadassi ، Fahime Parvizian ، Seyed mohsen Hosseini ، Takeshi Matsuura ، Ezatollah JOUDAKI

Abstract

Poly (ethylene-oxide) (PEO)-based membranes have attracted much attention recently for CO 2 separation because CO 2 is highly soluble into PEO and shows high selectivity over other gases such as CH 4 and N 2 . Unfortunately, those membranes are not strong enough mechanically and highly crystalline, which hin- ders their broader applications for separation membranes. In this review discussions are made, as much in detail as possible, on the strategies to improve gas separation performance of PEO-based membranes. Some of techniques such as synthesis of graft copolymers that contain PEO, cross-linking of polymers and blending with long chains polymers contributed significantly to improvement of membrane. Incor- poration of ionic liquids/nanoparticles has also been found effective. However, surface modification of nanoparticles has been done chemically or physically to enhance their compatibility with polymer ma- trix. As a result of all such effort s, an excellent performance, i.e., CO 2 permeability up to 200 Barrer, CO 2 /N 2 selectivity up to 200 and CO 2 /CH 4 selectivity up to 70, could be achieved. Another method is to introduce functional groups into PEO-based polymers which boosted CO 2 permeability up to 200 Barrer with CO 2 /CH 4 selectivity between 40 and 50. The CO 2 permeability of PEO-based membranes increases, without much change in selectivity, when the length of ethylene oxide is increased.