Carbon dioxide recovery from combustion processes using structured ceramic membranes

Completed

Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(CO2 Capture and Storage, CO2 capture/separation)

Basic and strategic applied research

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Chemical Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor IS Metcalfe
School of Chemical Engineering & Advanced Materials
Newcastle University

Standard

EPSRC

01 November 2005

30 November 2006

13 months

£91,238

Catalysis & surfaces

North East

Chemical Engineering Responsive -- Process Environment and Sustainability

Professor IS Metcalfe, School of Chemical Engineering & Advanced Materials, Newcastle University

Innovative solutions are required to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from energy production processes. Here we propose to fabricate mixed ionic and electronic conducting membranes using innovative methods to produce novel membrane structures. Such membranes will be capable of conducting both oxygen-ions and electrons. Under reaction conditions methane will be fed to one side of the membrane and air to the other. Ionic oxygen transport across the membrane will result in methane combustion. The advantage of such a membrane is that the fuel exhaust stream is kept separate from the combustion air exhaust stream allowing for carbon dioxide recovery followed by possible recycle or sequestration

21/03/12