Abstract
The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) started a new NEDO project in 1992. After two years fessibility study, Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JECC) has started research and development study from 1994.
To know the current membrane technology, two missions were send to Europe and the USA last year. The author had chance to join both missions and visited main labolatories in the world which were doing research and development of ceramic membrane.
In this report, 1) the technological subject to develop porous ceramic membrane are focoused, 2) current researches for controlling pore size by sol-gel method, CVD method and zeolite synthesis are introduced briefly, 3) evaluation techniques of membrane and sol particles are introduced shortly, 4) the membrane performance is discussed from the viewpoint of industrial usage and 5) applications of ceramic membrane for carbon dioxide separation.
