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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2012
Johannes G Wijmans, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Richard W Baker, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Timothy C Merkel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Johannes G Wijmans, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Richard W Baker, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Timothy C Merkel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Membrane Technology and Research, Inc, Newark, CA (US);
Abstract
A gas separation process for treating off-gas streams from reaction processes, and reaction processes including such gas separation. The invention involves flowing the off-gas across the feed side of a membrane, flowing a sweep gas stream, usually air, across the permeate side, and passing the permeate/sweep gas mixture to the reaction. The process recovers unreacted feedstock that would otherwise be lost in the waste gases in an energy-efficient manner.