Advances in the Use of Nanocomposite Membranes for Carbon Capture Operations

Table 2

Summary of pilot and industrial scale used membrane.

Membrane	Industry applied	Scale	CO2 purity (%)	Membrane surface area	Duration of application	No. of stages	Reference
Flat sheet FSC membrane	Cement plant	Pilot	70	18 m^2	6 months	2 stages	[106]
Polyactive™	Coal-fired power plant	Pilot	60–70	12.5 m^2	740 h	1 stage	[107]
Polyethersulphone (PES) hollow fiber	LNG fired flue gas plant	Pilot	90	(2in, 3in)		4 stages	[76]
Polaris polymeric; FSC membrane	Cement plant	Large	99	94400 m^2; 41300 m^2; 10300 m^2		2-3 stages	[28]
Polaris membrane	Natural gas combined-cycle power plant	Pilot	90	8 in diameter	1000 h	2 stages	[35]
FCE electrochemical membrane	PC flue gas power plant	Large	90	11.7 m^2	9 months	1 stage	[34]
Nanoporous superhydrophobic membrane contactor	Coal-fired plant	Pilot	93.2; 2580 GPU	3161 cm^2		1 stage	[42]
Polaris™	Coal gas power plant	Lab; Pilot; Large	95	30 cm^2; 1–4 m^2; 20 m^2	2000 h	2 stages	[33]
DOW nanofiltration membrane	Flue gas lignified power plant	Pilot	764 GPU	7.5 m^2; 5 m^2	5 h; 20 h	1 stage	[90]