Fabrication of high silicalite-1 content filled PDMS thin composite pervaporation membrane for the separation of ethanol from aqueous solutions
Abstract(#br)Sedimentation of silicalite-1 occurs in the fabrication of thin silicalite-1 filled polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) hybrid composite membranes if the viscosity of membrane solution is low, which makes this preparation challenging. In this work, a new method that use a platinum catalytic agent to assist the pre-polymerization of PDMS polymer to increase the viscosity of the membrane solution was studied.