Electrochemical Ceramic Membranes for Air Separation and Oxygen Production
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Membranes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2021) | Viewed by 411
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Interests: solid oxide fuel cells; solid oxide electrolysis cells; gas separation membranes; materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage; reliability and durability of functional and structural materials; transport phenomena and electrochemical kinetics
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Dear Colleagues,
Oxygen production through air separation has wide applications, such as petroleum, pharmaceuticals, and chemical processes, metal manufacturing industries, etc. and is particularly important in the efforts to achieve highly efficient and environmentally benign industrial processes. For example, when pure oxygen instead of air is employed in power plants, the emission gas generated from the combustion process is carbon dioxide that can be readily collected for other industrial utilizations and/or further sequestration. This can prevent direct release of emission gas as a greenhouse gas to the environment. The use of pure oxygen instead of air as the oxidant in chemical industrial processes can significantly improve efficiency while remarkably reducing the cost because the separation of nitrogen from the subsequent product in down streams is not needed.
This Special Issue on “Electrochemical Ceramic Membranes for Air Separation and Oxygen Production” of the journal Membranes seeks contributions to assess the current state of knowledge and encourage future developments in this field. Topics include but are not limited to the design and development of conducting ceramic materials for membranes, fabrications of micro/nano-structured membrane devices, up-scaling of single membranes into stacks, testing and characterization of membranes, modeling, model-based membrane designs, and novel applications. Authors are invited to submit their latest results; both original papers and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Xingjian (Chris) Xue
Guest Editor
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