(122f) Separations Inspired from Adsorption: From Adsorbents to Adsorbent Membranes

Everybody who worked with Doug has been inspired by adsorption and adsorbents. The extension of this knowledge sometimes leads to other research areas such as transport phenomena including adsorbents. Some examples of these processes include inorganic membranes containing adsorbents such as zeolites, as well as mixed matrix membranes containing any adsorbent materials. These membranes can be used in different gas and liquid separation applications.

In this presentation, examples of adsorption and adsorption inspired membrane separations will be discussed. These include gas separations with adsorbents; gas separations with inorganic membranes made out of adsorbents; pervaporation separation and recovery of alcohols from fermentation of agricultural by-products using mixed matrix membranes for them to be blended into gasoline.

Incorporation of adsorption and diffusion theories into the characterization of membranes will be discussed with separation examples mentioned above.