Ceramic membranes for energy applications and CO2 capture

膜通常为过程强化提供非常重要的机会。特别是，高温陶瓷膜有很大范围的能源相关应用，但尚未充分开发。该平台赠款提案旨在支持我们在能源应用和CO2捕集高温膜领域的联合小组。本研究包括膜催化、新型多功能膜的制备、结构和传输特性以及应用。这项工作将涉及一个高度多学科的努力与世界领先的调查/研究团队，包括膜技术专家，化学工程师，化学家和材料科学家。即将进行的研究将要求该团队的互补专业知识来研究一些关键挑战，以便在应用环境中开发新的氧气，氢气和蒸汽渗透陶瓷膜，使低碳能源和碳捕获过程的生产成为可能。这些膜的应用具有真正颠覆性的潜力。这项建议的特点是，赠款所雇用的项目进展报告人将前往国际领先团体进行长期培训访问。这将加强我们的研究能力，并增加PDRA的就业机会。

Membranes in general provide very significant opportunities for process intensification. In particular there is a large range of energy-related applications for high temperature ceramic membranes that is as yet poorly explored. This Platform Grant proposal is aimed at underpinning our joint group in the field of high temperature membranes for energy applications and CO2 capture. This research encompasses membrane catalysis, novel multi-functional membrane fabrication and structural and transport characterisation as well as application. The work will involve a highly multi-disciplinary effort with a world-leading team of investigators/researchers comprising membrane technologists, chemical engineers, chemists and material scientists. The research to be performed will call upon the complementary expertise of this team to examine a number of key challenges so that new oxygen, hydrogen and steam permeable ceramic membranes can be developed in an applied context making the production of low carbon energy and carbon capture processes possible. The applications for these membranes have the potential to be truly disruptive. The proposal is distinctive in that the PDRAs employed on the grant will travel to internationally leading groups for extended training visits. This will strengthen our research capability and increase the employability of the PDRAs.