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ADSORPTION-JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADSORPTION SOCIETY
卷 18, 期 1, 页码 13-22出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10450-011-9375-x
关键词
Silicon nanotube (SiNT); Canonical Monte Carlo simulation; Morse potential; Gas adsorption; Gas separation
A combination of ab initio quantum mechanical (QM) calculations and canonical Monte Carlo (CMC) simulations are employed to investigate possible usage of single-walled silicon nanotubes (SWSiNTs) as a novel media for hydrogen and methane adsorption as well as their separation from each other. By fitting the force field, a Morse potential model is selected as an efficient potential to describe the binding energies between both hydrogen-SiNTs and methane-SiNTs obtained from ab initio calculations. Then CMC simulations are performed to evaluate the adsorption and separation behaviors of H-2 and CH4 on the three different sizes of SiNTs including (5, 5), (7, 7), and (9, 9) SiNTs at ambient temperatures and pressures from 1 up to 10 MPa. As a comparison, the adsorption and separation of H-2 and CH4 on the (8, 8) CNTs which are isodiameter with (5, 5) SiNTs are also simulated. Results are indicative of remarkable enhancement of H-2 and CH4 adsorption capacity on the SiNTs compared to the CNTs, which arise from stronger van der Waals (VDW) attractions. In the case of methane adsorption on SiNTs, the stored volumetric energy exceeds the goal of the US Freedom CAR Partnership by 2010, which can not be achieved by methane compression at such low pressures. Moreover, simulation results indicate that SiNTs preferentially adsorb methane relative to hydrogen in their equimolar mixture, which results in efficient separation of these gases from each other at 293 K.
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