Catalytic Inorganic Membrane Reactors

Section 3 presents a look at the current state of membrane reactor evaluation. Despite the advances of recent years, many challenges and difficulties still face catalytic membrane reactors. Some are technical the materials available, although much improved, still suffer from problems of stability. The difficulty of obtaining high permeation rate and permselectivity in the same material still confronts us. Some problems are commercial or competitive in nature. For example, membrane reactors may be too expensive. In certain applications, reactors that are more conventional can outperform them. An active area of research answers the question of how to make such comparisons. Simple measures, such as conversion or yield, do not always give the whole story. 

To put recent developments in catalytic membrane reactors into perspective, providing some background for the reader who is not an expert in this area is necessary. Those for whom this is superfluous may wish to skip to Section 3. The present section provides a brief overview of well-established developments in 

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With all of the research performed on catalytic inorganic membrane reactors in the last 20-30 years, it is somewhat surprising that there appear to be almost no... 

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