Principles, thermal separation technology

A. Mersm m et al.. Thermal Separation Technology Principles, Methods, Process Design, VDI-Buch, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-12525-6 1,... 

The distillation separation of products from cracking operations, whether catalytic or thermal, is similar in principle to the technology of main crude oil distillation columns. As the cracking reactors discharge a product at temperatures in the range of 700° F to... 

Microporous silica membranes operate on a molecular sieving principle and are usually tailored to separate H2 from other, larger, gases. Hence their incorporation into membrane reactor technology is most suited to those reactions that either consume or produce H2 and especially, given their thermal stability, for those reactions involving H2 that occur at temperatures up to 800°C. This section explores the membrane reactor performance of several of the catalytic reactions where silica-based membranes have been effectively demonstrated at the research level. 

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