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Membrane Separation Qian Jiang 2012.11.23 JOURNAL REPORT A novel poly(dimethyl siloxane)/poly(oligosilsesquioxanes) composite membrane for pervaporation desulfurization Qiu Gen Zhang, Bing Cheng Fan, Qing Lin Liu, Ai Mei Zhu, Feng Feng Shi Journal of Membrane Science 366 (2011) 335–341 Being a hydrophobic polymer with good chain flexibility, large free volume and high permeability to permeants, PDMS has been widely used as a membrane material for separation of organic compounds. POSS has high hydrophobicity due to their CH3 groups, which can make the composite membranes increase or retain preferential sorption for thiophene. Inverse gas chromatography (IGC) can be used to determine the infinite dilution solubility coefficient and diffusion coefficient to evaluate pervaporation performance of a membrane. Introduction Membrane preparation PDMS(10g) POSS(wt%) Stired at room temperature for 2h TEOS(5g) Stired for 1h Casted on a porous cellulose acetate 40℃ for 8h n-heptane(84g) dibutyltin dilaurate(1g) Peeled off IGC experiments The composite with 5.0wt% POSS loading has the strongest affinity for thiophene, benzene and toluene. Characterization of membranes The composite membranes have a sharp peak around 2θ =10? with the incorporation of POSS, and this is in agreement with the XRD curve of POSS. SEM image of the surface and cross-section of the PDMS/POSS composite membrane The PDMS membrane has a homogeneous surface. The particles observed are due to the aggregation of the POSS . Thickness of the separation layer is about 18μm. Characterization of membranes Pervaporation performance The sorption and diffusion behaviors of components are in agreement with the flux and enrichment factor. Conclusions and helps ●The solubility coefficients and diffusion coefficients of thiophene, benzene and toluene in the composites at infinite dilution are greater than the other four solvents. ●The addition of POSS enhanced solubi