摘要:
A method for preparation of macroporous polymeric membranes consisting in placing a mixture of monomers and a radical initiator, dissolved in a porogenic inert organic solvent selected from the group comprising alcohols, estes of carboxylic acids, ketones, and their mixtures, into a space of an adapted shape formed by two temperature-controlled plates and a distance insert having the thickness corresponding to the required thickness of membrane and heating up to 80.degree. C. for 24 hours at utmost in order to carry out the radical polymerization. Azo-bis-isobutyronitrile is advantageously used as an initiator in the amount 0.05-2 wt. % related to monomers in the polymerization mixture. Cyclohexanol or its mixture containing up to 20 vol. % dodecanol are advantageously used as a porogenic solvent in the amount 40-60 vol. % in the polymerization batch. Also included is the method of application of macroporous membranes, where a sector made from the membrane is placed on a base fixing its position and enabling the outlet of liquid passing through the membrane, which base create a wall of a chamber. The chamber is filled with a solution of polymer or polymer mixture, the solution passes through the membrane under pressure up to 1 MPa, the polymer or polymers are sorbed in the membrane, and then a solvent with properties changing according to the purposeful program is introduced into the chamber and individual components of the separated mixture are eluted and detected and/or collected.
摘要:
Composite membranes are disclosed having a separation layer comprised of a mixture of poly(methy methacrylate) or a copolymer thereof and at least one cellulosic derivative resulting in enhanced separation and permeating characteristics of the overall composite membrane. Processes for making these composite membranes and the methods of using them are also disclosed. The membranes are particularly useful in gas separation applications and are most suited for the separation of hydrogen from a hydrogen containing stream.
摘要:
An improved composite polyamide membrane and methods of making the membrane are described. This improved membrane is prepared using a cationic polymeric wetting agent in an aqueous solution containing a polyfunctional amine reactant which is interfacially polymerized with an acyl halide to form a thin film polyamide discriminating layer on a microporous support. Alternatively, the wetting agent can be applied directly to the substrate and the interfacial polymerization can occur on said treated substrate. The resulting membrane exhibits an unexpected combination of high water flux, high rejection of divalent anion salts, variable sodium chloride rejection and good caustic resistance at low operating pressures. In one embodiment of this invention, a porous substrate is first treated with an aqueous piperazine solution containing a copolymer of vinylbenzyl dimethyl sulfonium chloride and methacrylic acid and then the coated microporous support is contacted with trimesoyl chloride in an organic solvent.
摘要:
Microporous membranes and methods for producing such membranes from ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene are described. The method employs extrusion of a solution of UHMW-PE and porogen through a forming die followed by thermal phase separation of polymer and porogen. Microporous structures are created by removing porogen. Microporous membranes produced include membranes with good permeability to air and water making them particularly useful as filtration media and water-resistance breathable membranes.
摘要:
A supported microporous membrane comprising a composite of a microporous membrane and a synthetic thermoplastic web of microfibers secured to the membrane without the use of added adhesive components and having an ASTM D903 peel strength of at least about 2 grams per centimeter, the composite having a modulus of flexure at leasts 10 percent greater than that of the membrane, and the method of manufacturing such supported membranes by contacting thermplastic microfibers with the membrane while the microfibers are at an elevated temperature.
摘要:
Ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer membranes characterized by constituent particles having an average diameter within the range of from 100 to 10,000 Angstrom units, determined under an electron microscope for the dry membrane, bonded to each other, wherein the membrane is substantially free from pores in excess of from 2 microns in diameter.Such a membrane has a permeability to water of 10 to 200 .times. 10.sup.-16 cm.sup.2 and to vitamin B.sub.12 of not less than 0.8 .times. 10.sup.-7 cm.sup.2 per second, and being of particular value as a membrane for the dialysis of blood.The membrane is obtained by dissolving an ethylenevinyl alcohol copolymer in a solvent consisting essentially of dimethylsulfoxide or dimethylacetamide and causing the resulting solution to coagulate from an aqueous coagulation bath under mild conditions such that the coagulation time as defined in the specification is not less than 3 seconds.
摘要:
Certain open-celled microporous films are treated to give products having increased porosity. The process involves contacting the open-celled film with a liquid organic compound such as perchloroethylene.
摘要:
There is described the preparation of hydrophilic, semipermeable film membranes having an increase in pores and containing complex-forming metals. The films can be formed from solutions having film-forming material and pore-forming material dissolved in a solvent. The films can be useful for separating a component, e.g. an aliphatically-unsaturated hydrocarbon, from mixtures by the combined use of liquid barrier permeation and metal complexing techniques. The liquid barrier is at least partially within the hydrophilic film membrane during use, and the barrier contains complex-forming metal ions in aqueous solution. The metal ions may be, for example, noble metal, nickel, mercurous, cuprous or other metal ions, and mixtures of these metal ions, and the aqueous solution may contain other cations. The separation of ethylene from ethane and methane is of particular interest.
摘要:
MICROPOROUS SHEET STRUCTURES ARE PREPARED BY CONVERTING AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS OF POLYURETHANE POLYMERS HAVING SALT-TYPE GROUPS INTO SHEET STRUCTURES AND MELT SINTERING THE STRUCTURES. THE DISPERSIONS ARE SEDIMENTING AND REDISPERSIBLE, THE PARICLES HAVING AN AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE ABOVE ABOUT 5U. THE PRODUCTS OF THE INVENTION ARE USEFUL AS ARTIFICAL LEATHER IN THE PREPARATION OF RAINCOATS, HANDBAGS, BELTS, SHOES, UPHOLSTERY AND ALSO AS VIBRATION AND SOUND DAMPING MATERIALS.
摘要:
Microporous sheet having pores of controlled size and arrangement and process of making in which temperature and composition are coordinated to control growth of size of nonsolvent liquid droplets constituting the discontinuous phase of an emulsion of which the continuous phase is a heated liquid polymeric reactive material which sets through reaction to solid condition and in which process the droplets are removed after setting of the reactive material to leave spaces constituting openings or pores in the solidified material. Pores of smaller size relative to the size of pores in the body of the sheet are provided in the sheet by control of the temperature of a casting surface.