Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method for reducing radon contained in indoor air from an indoor area. In some embodiments, indoor air containing radon from indoor air is directed through at least one layer of an adsorbent medium configured for capturing radon from air. In some embodiments, the indoor air is directed through the adsorbent medium at a predetermined flow-rate such that the fraction of radon captured in a single pass though the assembly is very low, approximately 10% or less of the concentration of radon in the incoming air. The low capture rate is offset by multiple passes of the air through the medium.

A method and system for collecting xenon (Xe) is described. A microchannel heat exchanger is used in combination with a mechanical cooler and an absorbent. A combination of components makes up a Xe Collection Subsystem that is adapted for use in an efficient process for collecting, purifying, and measuring Xe isotopes collected from air as part of the International Monitoring System.

A semi-porous composite membrane and a method of manufacturing the semi-porous composite membrane. The semi-porous composite membrane includes a base supporting substrate comprising ?-Al.sub.2O.sub.3, an outer layer comprising silica, and an intermediate layer comprising crystalline fibers of boehmite, and at least one of a secondary metal oxide and a synthetic polymer, wherein the intermediate layer is disposed between the base supporting substrate and the outer layer. The crystalline fibers of boehmite are a length of 5-150 nm. The semi-porous composite membrane may be employed in membrane reactors.

Porous materials (such as organic polyamine cage compounds) and methods of stabilising porous materials which are otherwise prone to pore-collapse are described. Such stabilisation is accomplished through the use of molecular ties to create bridges between reactive groups of a (potentially) porous material to thereby strengthen and stabilise the porous structure. The chemistry involved in, and the results of, the stabilisation of porous materials to provide a new sorption composition comprising the very materials which are generally prone to pore-collapse are also described.

A method for removing a radioactive noble gas from a gas volume, includes: (a) providing the gas volume such that a dew point of the gas volume at a gas temperature of 20? C. is ?20? C. or less, preferably ?30? C. or less, more preferably ?45? C. or less; and (b) passing the gas volume over a bed of a microporous molecular sieve including a transition metal disposed on and/or in the microporous molecular sieve, thereby adsorbing the radioactive noble gas to the bed.

A system for conditioning air in a building including a fan-coil unit arranged adjacent to or within an indoor space within the building and additionally configured to at least one of heat and cool the air of the indoor space, and a scrubber arranged adjacent to or within the indoor space, the scrubber configured during a scrub cycle for scrubbing of indoor air from the indoor space. The scrubber includes one or more adsorbent materials arranged therein to adsorb at least one predetermined gas from the indoor air during the scrub cycle, and an exhaust, wherein the scrubber is configured during a purge cycle to direct a purging air over and/or through the adsorbent materials to purge at least a portion of the at least one predetermined gas adsorbed by the adsorbent materials during the scrub cycle from the adsorbent materials and thereafter exhausting the flow via the exhaust.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for regenerating a sorbent material of a scrubber, configured for scrubbing a contaminant from indoor air from an enclosed space. Some embodiments include a sorbent material portion (SMP) including a sorbent material, which may be configured to be cycled between an adsorption phase for adsorbing a contaminant from indoor air, and a regeneration phase configured for releasing at least a portion of the contaminant adsorbed by the sorbent material during the adsorption phase thereof, via temperature swing adsorption, into a purging airflow.

The present invention provides a device and method for analyzing quality indicators of a natural gas product and an application. The device comprises a sample loading assembly, and first, second, third, fourth, and fifth chromatographic column analysis systems connected in parallel, wherein the first chromatographic column analysis system is configured for separating sulfides from natural gas; the second chromatographic column analysis system is configured for separating hydrocarbons having C.sub.3 and higher from the natural gas; the third chromatographic column analysis system is configured for separating oxygen, nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide from the natural gas; the fourth chromatographic column analysis system is configured for separating carbon dioxide and ethane from the natural gas; and the fifth chromatographic column analysis system is configured for separating helium and hydrogen from the natural gas; each chromatographic column analysis system is provided with a quantitative tube, a carrier gas tube, and a chromatographic column.

Chemical precursor recovery systems and methods of recovering and reusing semiconductor manufacturing chemistry are disclosed. The recovery systems include a cold trap inlet line in fluid communication with a plurality of cold traps and a cold trap outlet line. The plurality of cold traps is configured to condense the chemical precursors and are arranged based on semiconductor manufacturing process conditions.

Disclosed herein is a process for separating components of a gas mixture using gas-separation copolymer membranes. These membranes use a selective layer made from copolymers of perfluorodioxolane monomers. The resulting membranes have superior selectivity performance for gas pairs of interest while maintaining fast gas permeance compared to membranes prepared using conventional perfluoropolymers, such as Teflon AF, Hyflon AD, and Cytop.