Classification and Examples of Membrane Reactors

In practice, quite often a combination of the types described above is found. For example, palladium membranes act as permselective membranes for Ha and as catalysts for hydrogenation reactions at the same time, so the descriptions of types (a) and (b) both apply. 

Reactor type Membrane material Reaction Catalyst Ref. 

1(a) AI2O3 impregnated with catalyst Claus reaction y-AKOi [14] 

1(a) Organic polymer containing the enzyme Enantioselective hydrolysis of racemic methyl glycidate Lipase [17, 18] 

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