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Ceramics for Gas Separations and Membrane Reactors


Description:
This session invites talks in multiple areas of ceramics research for gas separations or membrane reactor applications. Porous ceramics such as zeolites or mesoporous carbon offer a combination of tunable pore sizes with high thermal and chemical stability, while dense mixed ionic-electronic conducting electroceramic membranes provide high permselectivity for oxygen or hydrogen transport. Lastly, electroceramic membranes enable multiple membrane reactor applications, ranging from solid-oxide fuel cells to electrolysis systems to membrane reactors.

Sponsor:
Membrane-Based Separations
Co-Sponsor(s):
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division (20), Ceramics (08D)


Chair:
Benjamin Wilhite
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Artie McFerrin Dept. of Chemical Engineering
200 Jack E Brown Building
College Station, TX 77843-3122
Phone Number: 9794864020
Fax Number: 9794864020
Email: benjaminwilhite@mail.che.tamu.edu

Co-Chair:
Mainak Majumder
Senior Lecturer
Monash University
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Laboratory (NSEL)
Victoria Email: mainak.majumder@monash.edu


Papers:
Highly Selective Faujasite-Type Zeolite Membrane for Isopropyl Alcohol/Water Vapor Mixtures
Masahiko Matsukata, Waseda University; Makoto Toyoda, Waseda University; Yasushi Sekine, Waseda University
Insights Into Ion Transport Pathways in Ceramics by in-Situ Neutron Diffraction
Steven McIntosh, Lehigh University; Rosemary Cox-Galhotra, University of Virginia; Ashfia Huq, Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jason Hodges, Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bilayer MFI Zeolite Membranes: Hydrogen Separation and Long Term Stability
Haibing Wang, Arizona State University; Jerry Y. S. Lin, Arizona State University
Dual-Phase Ceramic Membrane for Oxygen Separation
Weishen Yang, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xuefeng Zhu, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Modeling Charged-Defect Transport in Proton-Conducting Ceramic Membranes
Robert J. Kee, Colorado School of Mines; Huayang Zhu, Colorado School of Mines
First Principles Assessment of Perovskite Dopants for Proton Conductors with Chemical Stability and High Conductivity
Sung Gu Kang, Georgia Institute of Technology; David S. Sholl, Georgia Institute of Technology
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