Modelling of Gas Separation in Thermally Rearranged Polymeric Membranes

During the last decades, important progress has been achieved in both materials research and materials processing into devices technologies. Individually, these efforts have already had an impact on process design and modeling, and process performance. In particular, membrane processes are change agents that promote a more sustainable and higher global standard of living. The development of advanced membrane technologies and the industrial application of polymeric membranes require a good understanding of the materials properties and their transport mechanisms, as well as the realization of innovative functional materials with enhanced properties. Thermally rearranged polymers show impressive performance for important applications such as gas separation. The reason lies in their microporous structure with enhanced rigidity. Also owing to their good scalability, these materials will enable the next step in molecularly selective membranes. The rapid improvements in numerical simulation and modelling methods and algorithms together with the continuous increase in computer speed and increasing improvements in supercomputer architectures accelerates the research and development efforts through contributing to the improvements on materials research and process design and optimisation