“…Gas separation membranes have generated growing interests in recent years, as unlike MEA-based system, CO2 capture using membrane needs no or little chemicals, requires no retrofitting for the existing power plants, have relative ease of scale-up and operation, (Ritter and Ebner, 2007;Zhao et al, 2010), and is flexible for separating gases when high purity gas streams are not vital (Powell and Qiao, 2006) At present, most of the studies on gas separation membranes focus on the membrane material selection and functionalization, membrane preparation and characterization (Aaron and Tsouris, 2005;Powell and Qiao, 2006;Scholes et al, 2008), and membrane process analysis (Bounaceur et al, 2006;He et al, 2009;Hussain and Hagg, 2010;Merkel et al, 2010;Van Der Sluijs et al, 1992;Zhao et al, 2010;Zhao et al, 2008). For instance, the parametric studies and the systematic energy analysis of a single stage membrane process (Bounaceur et al, 2006;Zhao et al, 2008), the energetic and economic analyses of multi-stage membrane processes (Zhao et al, 2010), the influences of membrane parameters and process configurations on the energy consumption and cost considering a real industrial process (Merkel et al, 2010), the process feasibility of postcombustion of the real flue gas by facilitated transport membrane based on process simulation and cost estimations (Hussain and Hagg, 2010) as well as the process feasibility analysis of hollow fiber carbon membranes for CO2 capture from flue gases Hagg, 2011, 2013).…”