Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 53, Issue 30, Pages 7774-7778Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402894
Keywords
adsorption; stacking interactions; MOFs; selective separation; xylenes
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- Netherlands Research Council for Chemical Sciences (NWO/CW) through a VIDI
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The development of energy-efficient processes for selective separation of p-xylene from mixtures with its isomers is of vital importance in the petrochemical industries. Current industrial practice uses BaX zeolite that has high adsorption selectivity for p-xylene. Finding para-selective structures is challenging. With state-of-the-art simulation methodologies we systematically screened a wide variety of zeolites and metal-organic frameworks ( MOFs). Our investigations highlight the crucial importance of the channel dimension on the separation. MAF-X8 is particularly noteworthy because the channel dimensions and geometry allow commensurate stacking which we exploit as a separation mechanism at saturation conditions. Due to a significantly improved capacity compared to BaX, the cycle times for p-xylene with MAF-X8 are found to be about a factor of 4.5 longer. This is expected to result in significant process improvements.
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