Nonporous Inorganic Membranes

Membrane technology is a clean and energy-saving alternative to conventional processes with ionically conducting membranes already being used for a variety of gas separations to produce high-purity and dry gases.

This first book to focus on such membranes collates the literature hitherto scattered amongst various journals. The resulting ready reference presents an overview of all the facets necessary to demonstrate the potential impact of this emerging technology for advanced chemical processing. As such, the text addresses the evolution of materials for both oxygen and hydrogen transport membranes and offers strategies for their fabrication as well as their subsequent incorporation into catalytic membrane reactors. Other chapters deal with, among many other topics, engineering design and scale-up issues, strategies for preparation of supported thin-film membranes, interfacial kinetic and mass transfer issues.

A must for materials scientists, chemists, chemical engineers and electrochemists interested in advanced chemical processing.