Novel Membrane Technology for Green Ethylene Production
Balachandran U., Lee T.H., Dorris S.E., Scouten C.G., Marshall C.L., Argonne National Laboratory, US
Today ethylene is produced (approximately 60 billion pounds in 2005 in U.S.A. alone) by thermal cracking of ethane in presence of steam requiring substantial energy input. The equilibrium conversion is thermodynamically limited. Because of direct [...]