RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Helium Recovery by Membrane Gas Separation Using Poly(o‑acyloxyamide)s A1 Díez, Blanca A1 Cuadrado Curto, Purificación A1 Marcos Fernández, Ángel A1 Prádanos del Pico, Pedro Lourdes A1 Tena Matías, Alberto A1 Palacio Martínez, Laura A1 Lozano, Ángel E. A1 Hernández Giménez, Antonio K1 Helium Recovery K1 Membrane Gas Separation AB Poly(o-acyloxyamide)s (PORAs) derived from a poly(o-hydroxyamide) from 2,2′-bis(3-amino-4-hydroxyphenyl)-hexafluoropropane (APAF) diamine, APAF−POHA, have been synthesized and evaluated as gas separation materials. PORAswere synthesized from poly(o-hydroxyamide)s by derivatization of the free OH group with an aliphatic acid dichloride ordianhydride that allowed the introduction of acetyl or pivaloyl groups on their structure. All of them showed low−mediumthermal stability due to a degradation of the amide moieties, and most of them (those synthesized from isophthaloyl dichloride(IPC), 2,2′-bis(4-carboxyphenyl) hexafluoropropane dichloride (6FC), and 4,4′-dicarboxydiphenylsulfone dichloride (DPSC))showed good mechanical properties. The poly(o-acyloxyamide)s synthesized have shown good permselectivities for He/N2 andHe/CH4 separations and very good permeability−selectivity balance for He/CO2 separation. The acetyl PORAs showed betterpermeability versus selectivity balances than the pivaloyl ones. Moreover, selectivity increased while permeability decreased in thesequence 6F-APAF > IP-APAF > DPS-APAF. Intersegmental distances, d-spacing, were shown to decrease along this sequence,obtaining a nice correlation between permeability and d-spacing. For the He/N2 and the He/CH4 pairs of gases, the bestpermeability−selectivity values are obtained for 6F-APAF-Ac with a He permeability of 33 barrer and selectivities of 84 and 106,respectively. DPS-APAF-Ac gives a He permeability of 13 barrer and a selectivity of 21 for the He/CO2 separation. PB Elsevier SN 0014-3057 YR 2014 FD 2014 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21902 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21902 LA eng NO Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research , 2014, 53 (32), pp 12809–12818 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 25-abr-2024