Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Mixed matrix composite membranes based on amination of reduced graphene oxide for CO2 separation: Effects of heating time and nanofiller loading

  • Separation Technology, Thermodynamics
  • Published:
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The CO2 gas separation performance of aminated reduced graphene oxide (A-rGO) incorporated PEBAX mixed matrix composite membranes, by means of amination heating time and A-rGO loading, is reported. The 5 h of heating time resulted in an essential molecular sieving property for CO2 separation, thus used in membrane fabrication. The selective PEBAX/A-rGO5 layers were fabricated on top of the polysulfone supporting layer by a dip-coating method. The A-rGO was well-dispersed, the selective and support layers were seamlessly attached. The CO2 permeability and CO2/N2 selectivity of the PEBAX/A-rGO5 was greater than that of pristine PEBAX. 3 wt% of A-rGO5 loading resulted as the optimum since the gas selectivity decreased at higher loading. The PEBAX/A-rGO5 performance, which was slightly above the Robeson 2008 upper bound of permeability-selectivity relation for CO2/N2 gas separation, shows a promising application for industrial CO2 gas separation process.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. S. Loeb and S. Sourirajan, Adv. Chem., 38, 117 (1962).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. T. Li, Y. Pan, K.-V. Peinemann and Z. Lai, J. Membr. Sci., 425–426, 235 (2013).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. M. Vinoba, M. Bhagiyalakshmi, Y. Alqaheem, A. A. Alomair, A. Pérez and M. S. Rana, Sep. Purif. Technol., 188, 431 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. L. M. Robeson, J. Membr. Sci., 320, 390 (2008).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Y. Xiao, B. T. Low, S. S. Hosseini, T. S. Chung and D. R. Paul, Prog. Polym. Sci., 34, 561 (2009).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. M. Zhang, L. Deng, D. Xiang, B. Cao, S. Hosseini and P. Li, Processes, 7, 51 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. N. N. R. Ahmad, C. P. Leo, A. W. Mohammad and A. L. Ahmad, Micropor. Mesopor. Mater., 244, 21 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. M. G. Miricioiu, C. Iacob, G. Nechifor and V.-C. Niculescu, Front. Chem., 7, 332 (2019).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  9. Z. Hamrahi and A. Kargari, Sep. Purif. Technol., 52, 544 (2017).

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Y. Zhang, H. Wang, W. Yu, J. Shi and H. Shi, J. Membr. Sci., 564, 916 (2018).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. H. Asghar, A. Ilyas, Z. Tahir, X. Li and A. L. Khan, Sep. Purif. Technol., 203, 233 (2018).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. H. A. Mannan, D. F. Mohshim, H. Mukhtar, T. Murugesan, Z. Man and M. A. Bustam, J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 54, 98 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. M. Mubashir, Y. F. Yeong, K. K. Lau and T. L. Chew, Polym. Test., 73, 1 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Z. Tong and W. S. W. Ho, J. Membr. Sci., 543, 202 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. S. Majumdar, G. Tokay, V. Martin-Gil, J. Campbell, R. Castro-Muñoz, M. Z. Ahmad and V. Fila, Sep. Purif. Technol., 238, 116411 (2020).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  16. H. Sun, T. Wang, Y. Xu, W. Gao, P. Li and Q. J. Niu, Sep. Purif. Technol., 177, 327 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  17. E. Ahmadpour, A. A. Shamsabadi, R. M. Behbahani, M. Aghajani and A. Kargari, J. Nat. Gas Eng., 21, 518 (2014).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  18. R. Selyanchyn, M. Ariyoshi and S. Fujikawa, Membranes, 8, 121 (2018).

    Article  PubMed Central  CAS  Google Scholar 

  19. K. W. Jung and S. W. Kang, Sci. Rep., 9, 11454 (2019).

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  CAS  Google Scholar 

  20. A. Brunetti, M. Cersosimo, J. S. Kim, G. Dong and E. Fontananova, Int. J. Greenh. Gas Con., 61, 16 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  21. Y. Ying, Y. Cheng, S. B. Peh, G. Liu, B. B. Shah, L. Zhai and D. Zhao, J. Membr. Sci., 582, 103 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  22. S. Shahid and K. Nijmeijer, Sep. Purif. Technol., 189, 90 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  23. Q. Xin, Y. Zhang, Y. Shi, H. Ye, L. Lin, X. Ding, Y. Zhang, H. Wu and Z. Jiang J. Membr. Sci., 514, 73 (2016).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  24. D. Qadir, H. Mukhtar and L. K. Keong, Procedia Eng., 148, 588 (2016).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  25. K. Goh, H. E. Karahan, L. Wei, T.-H. Bae, A. G. Fene, R. Wang and Y. Chen, Carbon, 109, 694 (2016).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  26. K. Goh, J. K. Heising, Y. Yuan, H. E. Karahan, L. Wei, S. Zhai, J.-X. Koh, N. M. Htin, F. Zhang, R. Wang, A. G. Fene, M. Dekker, F. Dehghani and Y. Chen, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 8, 9994 (2016).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  27. X. Li, L. Ma, H. Zhang, S. Wang, Z. Jiang, R. Guo, H. Wu, X. Cao, J. Yang and B. Wang, J. Membr. Sci., 479, 1 (2015).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  28. X. Li, Y. Cheng, H. Zhang, S. Wang, Z. Jiang, R. Guo and H. Wu, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 7, 5528 (2015).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  29. Y. Shen, H. Wang, J. Liu and Y. Zhang, ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 3, 1819 (2015).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  30. G. Dong, J. Hou, J. Wang, Y. Zhang, V. Chen and J. Liu, J. Membr. Sci., 520, 860 (2016).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  31. G. Huang, A. P. Isfahani, A. Muchtar, K. Sakurai, B. B. Shrestha, D. Qin, D. Yamaguchi, E. Sivaniah and B. Ghalei, J. Membr. Sci., 565, 370 (2018).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  32. S. A. Mohammed, A. M. Nasir, F. Aziz, G. Kumar, W. Sallehhudin, J. Jaafar, W. J. Lau, N. Yusof, W. N. W. Salleh and A. F. Ismail, Sep. Purif. Technol., 223, 142 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  33. H.-H. Huang, K. K. H. De Silva, G. R. A. Kumara and M. Yoshimura, Sci. Rep., 8, 6849 (2018).

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  CAS  Google Scholar 

  34. N. Hu, Z. Yang, Y. Wang, L. Zhang, Y. Wang, X. Huang, H. Wei, L. Wei and Y. Zhang, Nanotechnology, 25, 025502 (2013).

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  35. D. Konios, M. M. Stylianakis, E. Stratakis and E. Kymakis, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 430, 108 (2014).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  36. J. H. Kim and Y. M. Lee J. Membr. Sci., 193, 209 (2001).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  37. A. Ghadimi, M. Amirilargani, T. Mohammadi, N. Kasiri and B. Sadatnia, J. Membr. Sci., 458, 14 (2014).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  38. N. Azizi, M. Arzani, H. R. Mahdavi and T. Mohammadi, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 34, 2459 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  39. H. W. Kim, H. W. Yoon, B. M. Yoo, J. S. Park, K. L. Gleason, B. D. Freeman and H. B. Park, Chem. Commun., 50, 13563 (2014).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  40. M. Karunakaran, R. Shevate, M. Kumar and K. V. Peinemann, Chem. Commun., 51, 14187 (2015).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  41. J. Shen, G. Liu, K. Huang, W. Jin, K.-R. Lee and N. Xu, Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 578 (2015).

    Google Scholar 

  42. M. M. Rahman, V. Filiz, S. Shishatskiy, C. Abetz, S. Neumann, S. Bolmer, M. M. Khan and V. Abetz, J. Membr. Sci., 437, 286 (2013).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  43. Y. Alqaheem, A. Alomair, M. Vinoba and A. Pérez, Int. J. Polym. Sci., 2017 (2017).

  44. J. Zhang, Q. Xin, X. Li, M. Yun, R. Xui, S. Wang, Y. Li, L. Lin, X. Ding, H. Ye and Y. Zhang, J. Membr. Sci., 570–571, 343 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Malaysia Ministry of Education (MOE) under the Higher Institutions’ Centre of Excellence Grant (HICOE) [grant number R.J090301.7851.4J431] and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia under the Collaborative Research Grant (CRG National) [grant number R.J130000.7351.4B474].

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

    Gishedaraankumar Krishnan, Farhana Aziz, Juhana Jaafar, Norhaniza Yusof, Wan Norharyati Wan Salleh & Ahmad Fauzi Ismail

  2. Advanced Membrane Technology Research Centre (AMTEC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

    Safia Syazana Mohtar, Farhana Aziz, Juhana Jaafar, Norhaniza Yusof, Wan Norharyati Wan Salleh & Ahmad Fauzi Ismail

Authors
  1. Gishedaraankumar Krishnan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Safia Syazana Mohtar
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Farhana Aziz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Juhana Jaafar
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Norhaniza Yusof
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Wan Norharyati Wan Salleh
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. Ahmad Fauzi Ismail
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Farhana Aziz.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Krishnan, G., Mohtar, S.S., Aziz, F. et al. Mixed matrix composite membranes based on amination of reduced graphene oxide for CO2 separation: Effects of heating time and nanofiller loading. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 37, 2287–2294 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-020-0649-4

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-020-0649-4

Keywords

Search

Navigation