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Pérez-Botella E, Valencia S, Rey F. Zeolites in Adsorption Processes: State of the Art and Future Prospects. Chem Rev 2022; 122:17647-17695. [PMID: 36260918 PMCID: PMC9801387 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Zeolites have been widely used as catalysts, ion exchangers, and adsorbents since their industrial breakthrough in the 1950s and continue to be state-of the-art adsorbents in many separation processes. Furthermore, their properties make them materials of choice for developing and emerging separation applications. The aim of this review is to put into context the relevance of zeolites and their use and prospects in adsorption technology. It has been divided into three different sections, i.e., zeolites, adsorption on nanoporous materials, and chemical separations by zeolites. In the first section, zeolites are explained in terms of their structure, composition, preparation, and properties, and a brief review of their applications is given. In the second section, the fundamentals of adsorption science are presented, with special attention to its industrial application and our case of interest, which is adsorption on zeolites. Finally, the state-of-the-art relevant separations related to chemical and energy production, in which zeolites have a practical or potential applicability, are presented. The replacement of some of the current separation methods by optimized adsorption processes using zeolites could mean an improvement in terms of sustainability and energy savings. Different separation mechanisms and the underlying adsorption properties that make zeolites interesting for these applications are discussed.
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Gómez-Álvarez P, Noya EG, Lomba E. Structural study of water/alcohol mixtures adsorbed in MFI and MEL porosils. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Peng L, Wu Z, Wang B, Liu H, Zhang C, Gu X. Fabrication of high-stability W-MFI zeolite membranes for ethanol/water mixture separation. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Pahari S, Dorneles de Mello M, Shah MS, Josephson TR, Ren L, Nguyen HGT, Van Zee RD, Tsapatsis M, Siepmann JI. Ethanol and Water Adsorption in Conventional and Hierarchical All-Silica MFI Zeolites. ACS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AU 2022; 2:79-88. [PMID: 36855513 PMCID: PMC9718309 DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.1c00026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Hierarchical zeolites containing both micro- (<2 nm) and mesopores (2-50 nm) have gained increasing attention in recent years because they combine the intrinsic properties of conventional zeolites with enhanced mass transport rates due to the presence of mesopores. The structure of the hierarchical self-pillared pentasil (SPP) zeolite is of interest because all-silica SPP consists of orthogonally intergrown single-unit-cell MFI nanosheets and contains hydrophilic surface silanol groups on the mesopore surface while its micropores are nominally hydrophobic. Therefore, the distribution of adsorbed polar molecules, like water and ethanol, in the meso- and micropores is of fundamental interest. Here, molecular simulation and experiment are used to investigate the adsorption of water and ethanol on SPP. Vapor-phase single-component adsorption shows that water occupies preferentially the mesopore corner and surface regions of the SPP material at lower pressures (P/P 0 < 0.5) while loading in the mesopore interior dominates adsorption at higher pressures. In contrast, ethanol does not exhibit a marked preference for micro- or mesopores at low pressures. Liquid-phase adsorption from binary water-ethanol mixtures demonstrates a 2 orders of magnitude lower ethanol/water selectivity for the SPP material compared to bulk MFI. For very dilute aqueous solutions of ethanol, the ethanol molecules are mostly adsorbed inside the SPP micropore region due to stronger dispersion interactions and the competition from water for the surface silanols. At high ethanol concentrations (C EtOH > 700 g L-1), the SPP material becomes selective for water over ethanol.
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- Swagata Pahari
- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, United States
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- Facility
for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Facility
for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Biomolecular Engineering and Institute for NanoBiotechnology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
- Applied
Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland 20723-6099, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
- Department
of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, United States
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Hedlund J, Garcia G, Balsamo M, Zhou M, Mouzon J. Microchannel zeolite 13X adsorbent with high CO2 separation performance. Sep Purif Technol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2021.119483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Pakzati M, Abedini H, Hamoule T, Shariati A. Equilibrium and dynamic investigation of butanol adsorption from acetone–butanol–ethanol (ABE) model solution using a vine shoot based activated carbon. ADSORPTION 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10450-021-00345-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hack JH, Dombrowski JP, Ma X, Chen Y, Lewis NHC, Carpenter WB, Li C, Voth GA, Kung HH, Tokmakoff A. Structural Characterization of Protonated Water Clusters Confined in HZSM-5 Zeolites. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:10203-10213. [PMID: 34210123 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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A molecular description of the structure and behavior of water confined in aluminosilicate zeolite pores is a crucial component for understanding zeolite acid chemistry under hydrous conditions. In this study, we use a combination of ultrafast two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy and ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) to study H2O confined in the pores of highly hydrated zeolite HZSM-5 (∼13 and ∼6 equivalents of H2O per Al atom). The 2D IR spectrum reveals correlations between the vibrations of both terminal and H-bonded O-H groups and the continuum absorption of the excess proton. These data are used to characterize the hydrogen-bonding network within the cluster by quantifying single-, double-, and non-hydrogen-bond donor water molecules. These results are found to be in good agreement with the statistics calculated from an AIMD simulation of an H+(H2O)8 cluster in HZSM-5. Furthermore, IR spectral assignments to local O-H environments are validated with DFT calculations on clusters drawn from AIMD simulations. The simulations reveal that the excess charge is detached from the zeolite and resides near the more highly coordinated water molecules in the cluster. When they are taken together, these results unambiguously assign the complex IR spectrum of highly hydrated HZSM-5, providing quantitative information on the molecular environments and hydrogen-bonding topology of protonated water clusters under extreme confinement.
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- John H Hack
- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ilinois 60208-3120, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.,Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ilinois 60208-3120, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.,Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.,Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ilinois 60208-3120, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Krishna R, van Baten JM. Water/Alcohol Mixture Adsorption in Hydrophobic Materials: Enhanced Water Ingress Caused by Hydrogen Bonding. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:28393-28402. [PMID: 33163823 PMCID: PMC7643331 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c04491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Microporous crystalline porous materials such as zeolites, metal-organic frameworks, and zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) have potential use for separating water/alcohol mixtures in fixed bed adsorbers and membrane permeation devices. For recovery of alcohols present in dilute aqueous solutions, the adsorbent materials need to be hydrophobic in order to prevent the ingress of water. The primary objective of this article is to investigate the accuracy of ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) for prediction of water/alcohol mixture adsorption in hydrophobic adsorbents. For this purpose, configurational bias Monte Carlo (CBMC) simulations are used to determine the component loadings for adsorption equilibrium of water/methanol and water/ethanol mixtures in all-silica zeolites (CHA, DDR, and FAU) and ZIF-8. Due to the occurrence of strong hydrogen bonding between water and alcohol molecules and attendant clustering, IAST fails to provide quantitative estimates of the component loadings and the adsorption selectivity. For a range of operating conditions, the water loading in the adsorbed phase may exceed that of pure water by one to two orders of magnitude. Furthermore, the occurrence of water-alcohol clusters moderates size entropy effects that prevail under pore saturation conditions. For quantitative modeling of the CBMC, simulated data requires the application of real adsorbed solution theory by incorporation of activity coefficients, suitably parameterized by the Margules model for the excess Gibbs free energy of adsorption.
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Bellal A, Chibane L. Fischer-Tropsch reaction mixture permeation through a silicalite-1 membrane reactor and its effect on the produced hydrocarbons distribution. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL REACTOR ENGINEERING 2020. [DOI: 10.1515/ijcre-2020-0062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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AbstractThe quantification of the permeation of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction mixture through a silicalite-1 zeolite membrane in which is integrated in to fixed bed reactor was theoretically investigated. The approach is based on the prediction of the permeation parameters by using two different mechanisms including surface diffusion and gaseous diffusion. It was found that under our investigated conditions, the total permeation could be governed by surface diffusion model since the contribution of this mechanism is dominant versus the gaseous diffusion. Noteworthy, our results show that except for the selective gas permeation of carbon dioxide, the measuring factors of different permeates were proportional to the operating pressure. Hydrocarbons with low molecular weight diffuse greater than long-chain hydrocarbons. Furthermore, the high adsorbed molecules are more likely to be affected by the high processing temperature. It can be also highlighted that the permeate amounts has no important effect on the product distribution which is characterized by the olefins to paraffins ratios. So the assumption that considers the separation of CO2without assuming other components permeation is well supported.
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- Abdelmalek Bellal
- Laboratory of Chemical Processes Engineering, Department of Processes Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Ferhat Abbas University of Setif 1, Setif, 19000, Algeria
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- Laboratory of Chemical Processes Engineering, Department of Processes Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Ferhat Abbas University of Setif 1, Setif, 19000, Algeria
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Mechanistic correlation between water infiltration and framework hydrophilicity in MFI zeolites. Sci Rep 2019; 9:18429. [PMID: 31804543 PMCID: PMC6895097 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54751-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Hydrophobic zeolites are nanoporous materials that are attracting an increasing interest, especially for catalysis, desalination, energy storage and biomedical applications. Nevertheless, a more profound understanding and control of water infiltration in their nanopores is still desirable to rationally design zeolite-based materials with tailored properties. In this work, both atomistic simulations and previous experimental data are employed to investigate water infiltration in hydrophobic MFI zeolites with different concentration of hydrophilic defects. Results show that limited concentrations of defects (e.g. 1%) induce a change in the shape of infiltration isotherms (from type-V to type-I), which denotes a sharp passage from typical hydrophobic to hydrophilic behavior. A correlation parametrized on both energy and geometric characteristics of the zeolite (infiltration model) is then adopted to interpolate the infiltration isotherms data by means of a limited number of physically-meaningful parameters. Finally, the infiltration model is combined with the water-zeolite interaction energy computed by simulations to correlate the water intrusion mechanism with the atomistic details of the zeolite crystal, such as defects concentration, distribution and hydrophilicity. The suggested methodology may allow a faster (more than one order of magnitude) and more systematic preliminary computational screening of innovative zeolite-based materials for energy storage, desalination and biomedical purposes.
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Pereira JPC, Overbeek W, Gudiño-Reyes N, Andrés-García E, Kapteijn F, van der Wielen LAM, Straathof AJJ. Integrated Vacuum Stripping and Adsorption for the Efficient Recovery of (Biobased) 2-Butanol. Ind Eng Chem Res 2019; 58:296-305. [PMID: 30774191 PMCID: PMC6369677 DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b03043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Revised: 11/29/2018] [Accepted: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Biobased
2-butanol offers high potential as biofuel, but its toxicity
toward microbial hosts calls for efficient techniques to alleviate
product inhibition in fermentation processes. Aiming at the selective
recovery of 2-butanol, the feasibility of a process combining in situ vacuum stripping followed by vapor adsorption has
been assessed using mimicked fermentation media. The experimental
vacuum stripping of model solutions and corn stover hydrolysate closely
aligned with mass transfer model predictions. However, the presence
of lignocellulosic impurities affected 2-butanol recovery yields resulting
from vapor condensation, which decreased from 96 wt % in model solutions
to 40 wt % using hydrolysate. For the selective recovery of 2-butanol
from a vapor mixture enriched in water and carbon dioxide, silicalite
materials were the most efficient, particularly at low alcohol partial
pressures. Integrating in situ vacuum stripping with
vapor adsorption using HiSiv3000 proved useful to effectively concentrate
2-butanol above its azeotropic composition (>68 wt %), facilitating
further product purification.
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Delgado JA, Águeda VI, García J, Álvarez-Torrellas S. Simulation of the recovery of methane from low-concentration methane/nitrogen mixtures by concentration temperature swing adsorption. Sep Purif Technol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2018.07.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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DeJaco RF, Dorneles de Mello M, Nguyen HGT, Jeon MY, Zee RD, Tsapatsis M, Siepmann JI. Vapor- and Liquid-Phase Adsorption of Alcohol and Water in Silicalite-1 Synthesized in Fluoride Media. AIChE J 2019; 66. [PMID: 33281192 DOI: 10.1002/aic.16868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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In this work, batch-adsorption experiments and molecular simulations are employed to probe the adsorption of binary mixtures containing ethanol or a linear alkane-1,n-diol solvated in water or ethanol onto silicate-1. Since the batch-adsorption experiments require an additional relationship to determine the amount of solute (and solvent adsorbed, as only the bulk liquid reservoir can be probed directly, molecular simulations are used to provide a relationship between solute and solvent adsorption for input to the experimental bulk measurements. The combination of bulk experimental measurements and simulated solute-solvent relationship yields solvent and solute loadings that are self-consistent with simulation alone, and allow for an assessment of the various assumptions made in literature. At low solution concentrations, the solute loading calculated is independent of the assumption made. At high concentrations, a negligent choice of assumption can lead to systematic overestimation or underestimation of calculated solute loading.
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- Robert F. DeJaco
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
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- Facility for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing, Material Measurement Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg MD
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
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- Facility for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing, Material Measurement Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg MD
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD
- Department of Research and Exploratory Development, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University Laurel MD
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
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Sabarish R, Unnikrishnan G. Novel biopolymer templated hierarchical silicalite-1 as an adsorbent for the removal of rhodamine B. J Mol Liq 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.10.093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Gómez-Álvarez P, Noya EG, Lomba E, Valencia S, Pires J. Study of Short-Chain Alcohol and Alcohol-Water Adsorption in MEL and MFI Zeolites. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2018; 34:12739-12750. [PMID: 30296099 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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In this paper, we present a comparative study of the adsorption behavior of short chain alcohols (pure and in aqueous solution) into silicalite-1 (MFI-type zeolite) and silicalite-2 (MEL-type zeolite). For quite some time, silicalite-1 has been the reference material to address the problem of adsorptive-based separation, mostly for hydrocarbon mixtures. Interestingly, being structurally close to silicalite-1, adsorption studies using silicalite-2 are scarce and to the best of our knowledge, a comparative study of their behavior for alcohol-water mixtures has not been published to date. We have here resorted to molecular simulation techniques to analyze the adsorption and diffusion phenomena in both zeolites at 25 and 50 °C for pure methanol, ethanol, 1-butanol, and water, and for some relevant compositions of alcohol/water mixtures. In addition to the dilute regime in the mixture, our study ranges from intermediate alcohol concentrations to alcohol-rich phases, relevant to alcohol purification processes. Besides, we have performed volumetric and calorimetric measurements of single-component adsorption of alcohols in pure silica MEL zeolite, which were used to validate the model potentials used in the simulations. We observe that the zigzag channels of MFI zeolite are most likely responsible for its somewhat higher affinity for alcohols. This leads to higher adsorption selectivities when compared to those of MEL zeolite. We have also found that the choice of water model strongly conditions water coadsorption into the zeolites and subsequently the predictions of the adsorbent's selectivity in alcohol/water systems. Despite considerable differences for adsorbed pure components, diffusivities of alcohol and water adsorbed from mixtures are relatively similar, as a consequence of the strong hydrogen bonds between hydroxyl groups and water.
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- Paula Gómez-Álvarez
- Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC , Serrano 119 , E-28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC , Serrano 119 , E-28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC , Serrano 119 , E-28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Tecnología Química , Universitat Politècnica de València-CSIC , Avenida de los Naranjos, s/n , Valencia 46022 , Spain
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- CQB and CQE, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências , Universidade de Lisboa , Ed. C8 , Campo Grande , 1749-016 Lisboa , Portugal
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Jiménez-Bonilla P, Wang Y. In situ biobutanol recovery from clostridial fermentations: a critical review. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2017; 38:469-482. [PMID: 28920460 DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2017.1376308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Butanol is a precursor of many industrial chemicals, and a fuel that is more energetic, safer and easier to handle than ethanol. Fermentative biobutanol can be produced using renewable carbon sources such as agro-industrial residues and lignocellulosic biomass. Solventogenic clostridia are known as the most preeminent biobutanol producers. However, until now, solvent production through the fermentative routes is still not economically competitive compared to the petrochemical approaches, because the butanol is toxic to their own producer bacteria, and thus, the production capability is limited by the butanol tolerance of producing cells. In order to relieve butanol toxicity to the cells and improve the butanol production, many recovery strategies (either in situ or downstream of the fermentation) have been attempted by many researchers and varied success has been achieved. In this article, we summarize in situ recovery techniques that have been applied to butanol production through Clostridium fermentation, including liquid-liquid extraction, perstraction, reactive extraction, adsorption, pervaporation, vacuum fermentation, flash fermentation and gas stripping. We offer a prospective and an opinion about the past, present and the future of these techniques, such as the application of advanced membrane technology and use of recent extractants, including polymer solutions and ionic liquids, as well as the application of these techniques to assist the in situ synthesis of butanol derivatives.
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- Pablo Jiménez-Bonilla
- a Department of Biosystems Engineering , Auburn University , Auburn , AL , USA.,b Laboratory of Natural Products and Biological Assays (LAPRONEB), Chemistry Department , National University (UNA) , Heredia , Costa Rica
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- a Department of Biosystems Engineering , Auburn University , Auburn , AL , USA.,c Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts , Auburn University , Auburn , AL , USA
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Farzaneh A, DeJaco RF, Ohlin L, Holmgren A, Siepmann JI, Grahn M. Comparative Study of the Effect of Defects on Selective Adsorption of Butanol from Butanol/Water Binary Vapor Mixtures in Silicalite-1 Films. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:8420-8427. [PMID: 28767246 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A promising route for sustainable 1-butanol (butanol) production is ABE (acetone, butanol, ethanol) fermentation. However, recovery of the products is challenging because of the low concentrations obtained in the aqueous solution, thus hampering large-scale production of biobutanol. Membrane and adsorbent-based technologies using hydrophobic zeolites are interesting alternatives to traditional separation techniques (e.g., distillation) for energy-efficient separation of butanol from aqueous mixtures. To maximize the butanol over water selectivity of the material, it is important to reduce the number of hydrophilic adsorption sites. This can, for instance, be achieved by reducing the density of lattice defect sites where polar silanol groups are found. The density of silanol defects can be reduced by preparing the zeolite at neutral pH instead of using traditional synthesis solutions with high pH. In this work, binary adsorption of butanol and water in two silicalite-1 films was studied using in situ attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy under equal experimental conditions. One of the films was prepared in fluoride medium, whereas the other one was prepared at high pH using traditional synthesis conditions. The amounts of water and butanol adsorbed from binary vapor mixtures of varying composition were determined at 35 and 50 °C, and the corresponding adsorption selectivities were also obtained. Both samples showed very high selectivities (100-23 000) toward butanol under the conditions studied. The sample having low density of defects, in general, showed ca. a factor 10 times higher butanol selectivity than the sample having a higher density of defects at the same experimental conditions. This difference was due to a much lower adsorption of water in the sample with low density of internal defects. Analysis of molecular simulation trajectories provides insights on the local selectivities in the zeolite channel network and at the film surface.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Chemical Technology, Luleå University of Technology , SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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- Chemical Technology, Luleå University of Technology , SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Chemical Technology, Luleå University of Technology , SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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Van der Perre S, Gelin P, Claessens B, Martin-Calvo A, Cousin Saint Remi J, Duerinck T, Baron GV, Palomino M, Sánchez LY, Valencia S, Shang J, Singh R, Webley PA, Rey F, Denayer JFM. Intensified Biobutanol Recovery by using Zeolites with Complementary Selectivity. CHEMSUSCHEM 2017; 10:2968-2977. [PMID: 28585778 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201700667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A vapor-phase adsorptive recovery process is proposed as an alternative way to isolate biobutanol from acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation media, offering several advantages compared to liquid phase separation. The effect of water, which is still present in large quantities in the vapor phase, on the adsorption of the organics could be minimized by using hydrophobic zeolites. Shape-selective all-silica zeolites CHA and LTA were prepared and evaluated with single-component isotherms and breakthrough experiments. These zeolites show opposite selectivities; adsorption of ethanol is favorable on all-silica CHA, whereas the LTA topology has a clear preference for butanol. The molecular sieving properties of both zeolites allow easy elimination of acetone from the mixture. The molecular interaction mechanisms are studied by density functional theory (DFT) simulations. The effects of mixture composition, humidity and total pressure of the vapor stream on the selectivity and separation behavior are investigated. Desorption profiles are studied to maximize butanol purity and recovery. The combination of LTA with CHA-type zeolites (Si-CHA or SAPO-34) in sequential adsorption columns with alternating adsorption and desorption steps allows butanol to be recovered in unpreceded purity and yield. A butanol purity of 99.7 mol % could be obtained at nearly complete butanol recovery, demonstrating the effectiveness of this technique for biobutanol separation processes.
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- Stijn Van der Perre
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica, Universitat Politècnica de València, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avenida de los Naranjos, s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica, Universitat Politècnica de València, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avenida de los Naranjos, s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica, Universitat Politècnica de València, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avenida de los Naranjos, s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain
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- School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR, P.R. China
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Australia
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Australia
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica, Universitat Politècnica de València, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avenida de los Naranjos, s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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Farzaneh A, Zhou M, Antzutkin ON, Bacsik Z, Hedlund J, Holmgren A, Grahn M. Adsorption of Butanol and Water Vapors in Silicalite-1 Films with a Low Defect Density. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:11789-11798. [PMID: 27797215 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Pure silica zeolites are potentially hydrophobic and have therefore been considered to be interesting candidates for separating alcohols, e.g., 1-butanol, from water. Zeolites are traditionally synthesized at high pH, leading to the formation of intracrystalline defects in the form of silanol defects in the framework. These silanol groups introduce polar adsorption sites into the framework, potentially reducing the adsorption selectivity toward alcohols in alcohol/water mixtures. In contrast, zeolites prepared at neutral pH using the fluoride route contain significantly fewer defects. Such crystals should show a much higher butanol/water selectivity than crystals prepared in traditional hydroxide (OH-) media. Moreover, silanol groups are present at the external surface of the zeolite crystals; therefore, minimizing the external surface of the studied adsorbent is important. In this work, we determine adsorption isotherms of 1-butanol and water in silicalite-1 films prepared in a fluoride (F-) medium using in situ attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy. This film was composed of well intergrown, plate-shaped b-oriented crystals, resulting in a low external area. Single-component adsorption isotherms of 1-butanol and water were determined in the temperature range of 35-80 °C. The 1-butanol isotherms were typical for an adsorbate showing a high affinity for a microporous material and a large increase in the amount adsorbed at low partial pressures of 1-butanol. The Langmuir-Freundlich model was successfully fitted to the 1-butanol isotherms, and the heat of adsorption was determined. Water showed a very low affinity for the adsorbent, and the amounts adsorbed were very similar to previous reports for large silicalite-1 crystals prepared in a fluoride medium. The sample also adsorbed much less water than did a reference silicalite-1(OH-) film containing a high density of internal defects.The results show that silicalite-1 films prepared in a F- medium with a low density of defects and external area are very promising for the selective recovery of 1-butanol from aqueous solutions.
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- Department of Physics, Warwick University , CV4 7AL Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University , SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Mathis C, Divandari M, Simic R, Naik VV, Benetti EM, Isa L, Spencer ND. ATR-IR Investigation of Solvent Interactions with Surface-Bound Polymers. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:7588-95. [PMID: 27397856 PMCID: PMC4974601 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Solvent interactions with bulk and surface-bound polymer brushes are crucial for functionalities such as controlled friction and thermoresponsive adhesion. To study such interactions, the temperature-induced solvent-quality changes and the effect of surface tethering on the mechanical and tribological properties of poly(dodecyl methacrylate) (P12MA) brushes have been investigated by means of attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy (ATR-IR), as well as atomic force microscopy (AFM) and lateral force microscopy (LFM). These results have been compared with temperature-dependent UV-visible spectrophotometry (UV-vis) data for the corresponding bulk polymer solutions. The ATR-IR results clearly show that increasing temperature enhances ethanol uptake in P12MA, which results in film swelling. This is accompanied by a marked increase in both adhesion and friction. We have also shown that a combination of solvents, such as toluene and ethanol, can lead to a temperature-dependent solvent partitioning within the polymer brush. To our knowledge this is the first time preferential solvent uptake in a grafted-from brush has been monitored via in situ ATR-IR. Moreover, we have observed remarkably different behavior for polymer chains in solution compared to the behavior of similar chains bound to a surface. The presented findings on the temperature-dependent solvent interactions of surface-grafted P12MA reveal previously unknown solvation phenomena and open up a range of possible applications in the area of stimuli-responsive materials.
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- Christian
H. Mathis
- Laboratory for Surface Science and
Technology and Laboratory for Interfaces, Soft matter
and Assembly, Department of Materials, ETH
Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg
5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Surface Science and
Technology and Laboratory for Interfaces, Soft matter
and Assembly, Department of Materials, ETH
Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg
5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Surface Science and
Technology and Laboratory for Interfaces, Soft matter
and Assembly, Department of Materials, ETH
Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg
5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Surface Science and
Technology and Laboratory for Interfaces, Soft matter
and Assembly, Department of Materials, ETH
Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg
5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Surface Science and
Technology and Laboratory for Interfaces, Soft matter
and Assembly, Department of Materials, ETH
Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg
5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Surface Science and
Technology and Laboratory for Interfaces, Soft matter
and Assembly, Department of Materials, ETH
Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg
5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Surface Science and
Technology and Laboratory for Interfaces, Soft matter
and Assembly, Department of Materials, ETH
Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg
5, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Zhou H, Mouzon J, Farzaneh A, Antzutkin ON, Grahn M, Hedlund J. Colloidal Defect-Free Silicalite-1 Single Crystals: Preparation, Structure Characterization, Adsorption, and Separation Properties for Alcohol/Water Mixtures. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2015; 31:8488-8494. [PMID: 26161725 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In this work, colloidal silicalite-1 single crystals are for the first time synthesized using fluoride as mineralizing agent at near neutral pH. SEM, TEM, DLS, XRD, solid-state (29)Si MAS NMR, and adsorption/desorption experiments using nitrogen, water, n-butanol, and ethanol as adsorbates were used to characterize the crystals. The single crystals have a platelike habit with a length of less than 170 nm and an aspect ratio (length/width) of about 1.2, and the thickness of the crystals is less than 40 nm. Compared with silicalite-1 crystals grown using hydroxide as mineralizing agent, the amount of structural defects in the lattice is significantly reduced and the hydrophobicity is increased. Membrane separation and adsorption results show that the synthesized defect-free crystals present high selectivity to alcohols from alcohol/water mixtures. The n-butanol/water adsorption selectivities were ca. 165 and 14 for the defect-free crystals and a reference sample containing defects, respectively, illustrating the improvement in n-butanol/water selectivity by eliminating the polar silanol defects.
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- §Department of Physics, Warwick University, CV4 7AL Coventry, United Kingdom
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Gutiérrez-Sevillano JJ, Calero S, Krishna R. Separation of benzene from mixtures with water, methanol, ethanol, and acetone: highlighting hydrogen bonding and molecular clustering influences in CuBTC. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:20114-24. [PMID: 26165859 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp02726h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Configurational-bias Monte Carlo (CBMC) simulations are used to establish the potential of CuBTC for separation of water/benzene, methanol/benzene, ethanol/benzene, and acetone/benzene mixtures. For operations under pore saturation conditions, the separations are in favor of molecules that partner benzene; this is due to molecular packing effects that disfavor benzene. CBMC simulations for adsorption of quaternary water/methanol/ethanol/benzene mixtures show that water can be selectively adsorbed at pore saturation, making CuBTC effective in drying applications. Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory (IAST) calculations anticipate the right hierarchy of component loadings but the quantitative agreement with CBMC mixture simulations is poor for all investigated mixtures. The failure of the IAST to provide reasonable quantitative predictions of mixture adsorption is attributable to molecular clustering effects that are induced by hydrogen bonding between water-water, methanol-methanol, and ethanol-ethanol molecule pairs. There is, however, no detectable hydrogen bonding between benzene and partner molecules in the investigated mixtures. As a consequence of molecular clustering, the activity coefficients of benzene in the mixtures is lowered below unity by one to three orders of magnitude at pore saturation; such drastic reductions cannot be adequately captured by the Wilson model, that does not explicitly account for molecular clustering. Molecular clustering effects are also shown to influence the loading dependence of the diffusivities of guest molecules.
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- Juan José Gutiérrez-Sevillano
- Department of Physical, Chemical and Natural Systems, University Pablo de Olavide, Ctra. Utrera km 1, 41013 Sevilla, Spain.
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