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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 650217, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/650217 Research Article Effect of PVP Intermediate Layer on the Properties of SAPO 34 Membrane Jugal K. Das, Nandini Das, and Sibdas Bandyopadhyay Ceramic Membrane Division, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, CSIR, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India Correspondence should be addressed to Nandini Das, nandinid100@rediff Received 30 September 2011; Accepted 5 December 2011 Academic Editor: Chang-An Wang Copyright © 2012 Jugal K. Das et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. SAPO 34 zeolite membranes were prepared on a tubular mullite support. Before membrane preparation, the support surfaces were coated with seed crystals. Seeds particles were prepared by hydrothermal synthesis. Before seeding, the substrates were treated with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) to orient the seeds. Both the treated and untreated supports were seeded, and membranes were synthesized on those support tubes by ex situ hydrothermal method. The PVP molecule exists in the two resonance structures. + − Hence the acylamino bond –N = C–O – acts as intermediate linker between support surface and seed surface. Due to charge interaction, the seed crystals were anchored strongly to support surface. The synthesized membranes along with seed crystals were characterized by XRD, FESEM, and EDAX analysis. The single-gas permeation with CO2 and H2 was investigated. Up to 5 bar of feed pressure, the permselectivity of CO2 and H2 was as high as 4.2. 1