SBIR Phase II: New Synthetic Approaches to Higher Performance, Lower Cost CO2/CH4 Gas Separation Membranes

这个小企业创新研究二期项目旨在开发一期创造的新的气体分离聚合物膜技术，以显着提高从甲烷中分离二氧化碳的能力。成功地利用这项新技术来分离这些具有重要商业价值的气体，将以比目前分离二氧化碳和甲烷的方法更低的成本提供更好的性能。解决这个问题的方法包括建造全新的聚合物建筑。单体单元是所需聚合物膜的组成部分，将单独设计为使二氧化碳分子比甲烷分子更快地通过膜。该项目开发的技术将产生更广泛的影响/商业潜力，能够在实际现场条件下运行时抵抗降解，这将导致生产用于现场测试的原型气体分离模块，并将进一步扩大对其他气体分离的应用，如氧气和氮气。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project aims to develop a new gas separation polymer membrane technology created in Phase I to significantly improve the ability to separate carbon dioxide from methane. Successful utilization of this new technology to separation of these commercially important gases will provide better performance at lower cost than current methods for separating carbon dioxide and methane. The approach to this problem involves construction of new-to-the-world polymer architecture. The monomer units, which are the building blocks to the polymer membranes desired, will be individually designed to pass carbon dioxide molecules through the membrane faster than methane molecules.The broader impact/commercial potential from the technology developed in the project will be a commercially robust membrane able to resist degradation under operation in real field conditions, which will lead to the production of prototype gas separation modules for field testing and will further expand applications to other gas separations such as oxygen and nitrogen.