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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
Volume 369, Issue 1-2, Pages 284-289Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2010.12.001
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MOF membrane; ZIF-8 membrane; Ethene/ethane separation; IR microscopy; GCMC simulations
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- DFG [SPP 1362]
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The newly developed MOF membrane ZIF-8 separates an equimolar ethene/ethane mixture at room temperature for 1 and 6 bar feed pressure, respectively, with a selectivity of 2.8 and 2.4. Independent sorption uptake studies of an ethene/ethane mixture on a big ZIF-8 single crystal by IR microscopy detection show in combination with grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations that this moderate ethene selectivity of the ZIF-8 membrane can be explained by the interplay of a preferential ethane adsorption selectivity competing with a preferential ethene diffusion selectivity. This means, that ethane adsorbs stronger than ethene, but ethene diffuses faster and overcompensates the adsorption preference of ethane, resulting in a membrane permeation selectivity for ethene. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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