Permeation of supercritical CO 2 through dense polymeric membranes
Abstract(#br)Supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO 2 ) is used in the food industry as a water-extracting drying agent. Once saturated with water, the scCO 2 needs to be regenerated. A promising way of drying scCO 2 is by using H 2 O permeable membranes. Ideally, these membranes demonstrate low CO 2 permeability. Here, we investigated the CO 2 permeability of three types of dense membranes, Nafion, Natural Rubber and PDMS, of which the latter in more detail because of its ease of handling.