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MIYAMOTO Manabu
Title Associate Professor
Department Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science
Course Materials Chemistry Course

Research fields

Porous materials including zeolites, mesoporous materials and metal organic frameworks have a lot of attractive features for practical applications in chemical and petrochemical industries. Aiming to develop the sustainable society, a process intensification of ""reaction "" and ""separation"", which are the one of the most important unit operations, should be of importance in chemical industries. Additionally, the integration of reaction and separation will be one of the promising processes to achieve the highly energy-saving applications. So, my studies are mainly the development of energy saving processes using porous materials as follows;
1. Shape selective catalysts
Preparation of core-shell type zeolite catalysts and their applications; selective formation of p-xylene or BTX (benzene, toluene xylenes) from alkenes.

2. CO2 separation
Amine-modified mesoporous silica; evaluating the effect of aminosilane density in the pores to CO2 adsorption properties.
Development of hydrophobic zeolite adsorbents with high CO2 adsorption capacity at low pressure.

3. Membrane separation
Preparation of metal organic framework membranes and evaluation of their membrane performance.
Development of double layered zeolite membranes.

Fig1 "Selective formation of p-xylene
over Core-Shell type zeolite catalysts"

Research Keywords

membrane separation adsorption catalysts porous materials

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