Nanostructured facilitated transport membranes

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This research deals with the fundamental issues of novel nanostructured facilitated transport membranes to separate gases that are difficult and costly to perform with traditional technologies. In facilitated transport, the permselectivity to a target component in a mixture is enhanced by selective and reversible complexation with the facilitating agents imbedded in the membrane. The membranes are targeted at 1) olefin/paraffin separation (to replace or complement with the traditional energy-intensive low temperature distillation), 2) O2 enrichment from air (for enhanced combustion), and 3) CO2 capture from flue gas (for greenhouse gas emission control). They are all directly related to Canada's strategic development of innovative technologies in the resource and energy industries.