Patent ID: 6527827
Filing Date: 2003-03-04
Classification: B01D,B01J,C01B

Abstract:
Process to separate a fluid mixture consisting of at least two components which is comprised of the following steps:contacting of the fluid mixture at a first, lower temperature in a first operating zone with a carbon membrane which is located adjacent to a surface of a porous transport matrix or applied to a surface of the matrix in which case at least one fluid component is adsorbed and at least one adsorbed component of the fluid mixture preferably permeates through the membrane; heating of a surface spatially distant from the membrane and/or a part of the porous transport matrix to a second, higher temperature which facilitates the thermal desorption of adsorbed components into a second operating zone, separate removal of the fluid mixture depleted of the at least one permeated component from the first operating zone and of the fluid mixture enriched by the at least one permeated component from the second operating zone.