期刊
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
卷 328, 期 -, 页码 360-367出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2017.07.044
关键词
C3H6/C3H8 separation; Gate opening; Thermoresponsive CPL-1; Flexible MOFs; Molecular dynamics simulation
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21576092, 21276092, 21436005, 21606144]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2017T100631]
The separation of olefin/paraffin mixtures is of great importance for the petrochemical industry, mainly achieved by using energy-intensive cryogenic distillation. We herein reported a flexible pillared-layer framework CPL-1 possessing a thermoresponsive gate opening behavior for C3H6 adsorption. We measured the C3H6 and C3H8 adsorption and desorption isotherms of CPL-1 at six different temperatures (273, 278, 283, 288, 293 and 298 K), respectively. Results showed that the gate opening pressure of C3H6 adsorption for CPL-1 increased with an increase of the adsorption temperature from 273 K to 288 K. However, no gate opening effect was observed within the measured pressure (<100 kPa) as the temperature increased to 293 and 298 K. In contrast, C3H8 adsorption for CPL-1 only occurred surface adsorption without appreciable amount adsorbed due to the closed phase of pores under all measured conditions. Thus, we investigated the adsorptive separation of C3H6 over C3H8 for CPL-1 at 273 K and developed the regeneration process at room temperature (298 K), based on its unique thermoresponsive property. Breakthrough experiments demonstrated the superior C3H6/C3H8 separation performance of CPL-1. Static and dynamic regeneration experiments showed that CPL-1 had excellent stability and high desorption efficiency after five consecutive adsorption-desorption cycles. Particularly, CPL-1 can be easily regenerated at 298 K since the desorption activation energy of C3H6 on CPL-1 was only 22.81 kJ/mol. Furthermore, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation revealed that the hydrogen bonding was a key factor governing the selective adsorption of C3H6 over C3H8 in CPL-1. This investigation highlighted the central importance of flexibility of adsorbent, and suggested that CPL-1 could be an interesting material for C3H6/C3H8 separation and had excellent regeneration property. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据