Journal
MEMBRANES
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/membranes11100735
Keywords
hydrogen purification; liquid-phase epitaxy; layer-by-layer; UiO-66-NH2; SURMOF; membrane-based gas separation
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- Cluster 3DMM2O - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [2082/1-390761711]
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The study focuses on the quality assurance of hydrogen fuel for mobile applications through metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes as a fine purification stage, achieving high separation efficiency, with the highest reported performance for a single-phase UiO-66-NH2 membrane.
The quality assurance of hydrogen fuel for mobile applications is assessed by the guidelines and directives given in the European and international standards. However, the presence of impurities in the hydrogen fuel, in particular nitrogen, water, and oxygen, is experienced in several refueling stations. Within this work, metal-organic framework (MOF)-based membranes are investigated as a fine-purification stage of the hydrogen fuel. Three H-2/N-2 concentrations have been used to analyze the separation factor of UiO-66-NH2 membranes prepared using the layer-by-layer (LBL) and the one-pot (OP) synthesis methods. It is shown that the separation factor for an equimolar ratio is 14.4% higher for the LBL sample compared to the OP membrane, suggesting a higher orientation and continuity of the LBL surface-supported metal-organic framework (SURMOF). Using an equimolar ratio of H-2/N-2, it is shown that selective separation of hydrogen over nitrogen occurs with a separation factor of 3.02 and 2.64 for the SURMOF and MOF membrane, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest reported performance for a single-phase UiO-66-NH2 membrane. For higher hydrogen concentrations, the separation factor decreases due to reduced interactions between pore walls and N-2 molecules.
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