Title
Development of highly permeable ultra-thin Pd-based supported membranes
Date Issued
01 December 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fernandez E.
Sanchez-Garcia J.A.
Melendez J.
Spallina V.
van Sint Annaland M.
Gallucci F.
Prema R.
TECNALIA
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
This paper reports the preparation and characterization of ultra-thin (∼1 μm thick) Pd-based supported membranes for hydrogen purification. Ultra-thin membranes have been prepared by a combination of PVD magnetron sputtering and electroless plating techniques. The membranes have been characterized for single gas and mix gas permeation at temperatures between 350 and 500 °C and they have shown to exhibit very high hydrogen fluxes combined with a good perm-selectivity (H2/N2 ≈ 500). These results have been compared with the performance of highly permeable membranes reported in the literature. The influence of the morphology of the deposited Pd-based layers on the membrane performance has been investigated and discussed.
Start page
149
End page
155
Volume
305
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química
Ingeniería química
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84991011040
Source
Chemical Engineering Journal
ISSN of the container
13858947
Sponsor(s)
The presented work is funded within the FluidCELL project as part of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) for the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative under grant agreement n° 621196. Note: “The present publication reflects only the authors’ views and the FCH JU and the Union are not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein”. This work is also funded within MEMPORE project (PI_2014_1_25) given by the Basque Department of Education, Language policy and Culture. The authors would like to thank Rauschert Kloster Veilsdorf for providing the ceramic tubular supports. Finally, the authors would like to thank University of Basque Country (UPV-EHU) for Zabalduz scholarship program and Prof. Pedro Luis Arias.
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