Imputation of missing gas permeability data for polymer membranes using machine learning
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Journal Article
Abstract
Polymer-based membranes have the potential for use in energy efficient gas separations. The successful exploitation of new materials requires accurate knowledge of the transport properties of all gases of interest. Open-source databases of gas permeabilities are of significant potential benefit to the research community. The Membrane Society of Australasia (https://membrane-australasia.org/) hosts a database for experimentally measured and reported polymer gas permeabilities. However, the database is incomplete, limiting its potential use as a research tool. Here, missing values in the database were imputed (filled) using machine learning (ML). The ML model was validated against gas permeability measurements that were not recorded in the database. Through imputing the missing data, it is possible to re-analyse historical polymers and look for potential “missed” candidates with promising gas selectivity. In addition, for systems with limited experimental data, ML using sparse features was performed, and we suggest that once the permeability of CO2 and/or O2 for a polymer has been measured, most other gas permeabilities and selectivities, including those for CO2/CH4 and CO2/N2, can be quantitatively estimated. This early insight into the gas permeability of a new system can be used at an initial stage of experimental measurements to rapidly identify polymer membranes worth further investigation.
Date Issued
2021-06-01
Date Acceptance
2021-02-21
Citation
Journal of Membrane Science, 2021, 627 (1), pp.1-10
ISSN
0376-7388
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
1
End Page
10
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Membrane Science
Volume
627
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
The Royal Society
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376738821001575
Grant Number
758370
URF\R\180012
Subjects
03 Chemical Sciences
09 Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
119207
Date Publish Online
2021-03-03