Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Separations Using Thin Films: Use of Zeolite Membranes in Process Mass Spectrometry

EEC-9528068诺贝尔该奖项为两个美国国家科学基金会工业/大学合作研究中心(I/UCRC)--科罗拉多大学博尔德分校薄膜分离中心和田纳西大学测量与控制工程中心--的“TIE”项目提供资金。将制备分子筛膜，并将其用于提高过程质谱仪分析多组分过程流的能力。膜将被用来基于选择性的大小、形状或吸附差异和/或基于相对渗透率的独特的时间依赖性来诱导组分分离，以帮助质量谱去卷积。将对最佳质谱学响应的膜性能进行评估。为特定应用量身定做的薄膜将在博尔德中心准备好，并在诺克斯维尔进行测试。将从中心工业成员提出的问题中提取关于组合技术演变的应用指导。成员安装中派生方法的测试将作为有效性测试的常规部分包括在内。

EEC-9528068 Noble This award provides funding for a "TIE" project involving two NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRCs) - the Center for Separations Using Thin Films at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the Measurement and Control Engineering Center at the University of Tennessee. Zeolite membranes will be prepared and used to improve the ability to analyze multicomponent process streams by process mass spectrometry. Membranes will be used to induce component separation based on selective size, shape, or sorptive differences and/or distinctive time dependence based on relative permeation rates as an aid to mass spectral deconvolution. Membrane properties for optimum mass spectrometric response will be assessed. Membranes tailored to this response for a given application will be prepared at the Boulder Center and tested in Knoxville. Applications guidance for evolution of the combined technologies will be drawn from problems posed by industrial members of the Centers. Testing of derived methodologies in member installations will be included as a regular part of effectiveness testing.