Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 6, Issue 15, Pages 12093-12099Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am502686g
Keywords
adsorption; porous materials; metal-organic framework; ethane; ethylene; IRMOF-8
Funding
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Technologia (FCT
- Portugal) [PEst-OE/QUI/UI0612/2013]
- IF [IF/00993/2012/CP0172/CT0013]
- FEDER
- QREN
- COMPETE [PEst-C/CTM/LA0011/2013]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PEst-OE/QUI/UI0612/2013] Funding Source: FCT
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The separation of ethylene from ethane is one of the most energy-intensive single distillations practiced. This separation could be alternatively made by an adsorption process if the adsorbent would preferentially adsorb ethane over ethylene. Materials that exhibit this feature are scarce. Here, we report the case of a metal-organic framework, the IRMOF-8, for which the adsorption isotherms of ethane and ethylene were measured at 298 and 318 K up to pressures of 1000 kPa. Separation of ethane/ethylene mixtures was achieved in flow experiments using a IRMOF-8 filled column. The interaction of gas molecules with the surface of IRMOF-8 was explored using density functional theory (DFT) methods. We show both experimentally and computationally that, as a result of the difference in the interaction energies of ethane and ethylene in IRMOF-8, this material presents the preferential adsorption of ethane over ethylene. The results obtained in this study suggest that MOFs with ligands exhibiting high aromaticity character are prone to adsorb ethane preferably over ethylene.
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