Synthesis of Polypropylene/ Polyethylene based composite and its Application

Abstract

At present juncture Membrane separation is an emerging area of research and is being widely used in different kind of industrial applications. Among the different processes, pervaporation process has a lot of advantages as compared to others. In this paper, synthesized membrane is used for separation of ethanol-water mixture. Polyethylene (PE)/polypropylene (PP) blend composite membrane was synthesized using solution casting in situ polymerization method. To enhance the properties of the composite membrane various crosslinking agents and fillers are added. In this paper, the results are presented for membranes that are preferentially permeable to ethanol and also for those that are preferentially water permeable.