The transport performances of carbon dioxide and methane were studied in polyethersulfone
polyethersulfone/ polyeterurethane (PES-ETPU) and polyethersulfone/polyestherurethane (PES-ESPU) blend membranes separately with different compositions. The variations in the structural characteristics of PES membrane after incorporation of ESPU and ETPU were investigated by different techniques. Additionally
the effect of pressure and composition on the permeance of CO
2
CH
4
and ideal selectivity of CO
2
/CH
4
were checked on the membranes. The results revealed that themorphology of the blendmembraneswas affected by two opposite factors: thermodynamic enhancement and kinetic hindrance. The membranes with denser sponge layers were formed at lower ratio of PU/PES
whilemore porous structure with enlarged macrovoids membraneswere observed at higher PU content. The results indicated that adding PU to PES membrane
caused permeance improvement of the gases with nearly no change and/or reduction in ideal selectivity of CO
2
/CH
4
.Moreover
PES-ETPU membranes showed higher permeability and less CO
2
/CH
4
selectivity in comparison with PES-ESPU samples. For PES-ESPU membrane containing 1.5% ESPU
CO
2
permeance at 10 bar was improved up to 20% with almost no change in CO
2
/CH
4
selectivity with respect to PES. Finally
response surface methodology was used to evaluate the effects of the operating parameters on the permeance and ideal selectivity.
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