Selective membrane application for the industrial one-step DME production process fed by CO2 rich streams: Modeling and simulation

The simulations confirm the improvement of the reactor performance, within large ranges of operating conditions, derived from the integration of the selective membrane. On this basis, membrane reactor for one-step DME synthesis process can be included in the “CO2 valorization” framework since the greenhouse gas CO2 can be used as a reactant in an industrial process and thus converted into a useful and marketable product.