Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering West Virginia University Morgantown West Virginia USA
Abstract
AbstractCatalytic membranes offer opportunities to develop modular, process‐intensified units. Dual‐functional materials, which integrate reactive and separation components in a single material, could play an important role in enabling them. Adapting the various characterization tools that are used to analyze the structures of metal‐based catalysts to these integrated structures could provide vital information for their design and implementation. In this perspective, we highlight the ways in which these tools can be used to analyze nonreactive membranes and non‐integrated systems where the catalyst and the membrane operate as two separate units. A methodology developed to analyze these comparatively simpler systems could be subsequently extended to integrated dual‐functional catalytic membranes. Thus, researchers from the catalysis and membranes communities can work together in a way that will not only lead to fundamental advancements in our understanding of catalytic membranes but also enable their transformation into real, scalable process‐intensified units.
Funder
Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission
Subject
General Chemical Engineering,Environmental Engineering,Biotechnology