COMPACT MEMBRANE SYSTEMS, INC. — Department of Energy SBIR Phase II: 18a
COMPACT MEMBRANE SYSTEMS, INC. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Energy.
- Amount
- $1,009,076
- Agency
- Department of Energy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- 18a
- Solicitation
- DE-FOA-0001405
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- DE
- Period
- 2016-04-22 → 2018-04-21
Description
Ethylene and propylene are major chemical industry raw materials and consume a great deal of energy related to their production. It is estimated that 250 trillion BTU/yr are consumed in olefin/paraffin separations. In 2011 worldwide ethylene and propylene production was about 140 and 70 million tons respectively. Historically, membrane processes for separating olefins and paraffins have been demonstrated with somewhat encouraging results but stability problems have led to systems that have been unable to maintain performance. In many cases the use of silver (Ag+) salts were used to preferentially transport the ethylene or propylene.