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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: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.5] [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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Mai Y, Xian X, Hu L, Zhang X, Zheng X, Tao S, Lin X. Liquid–liquid extraction of levulinic acid from aqueous solutions using hydrophobic tri-n-octylamine/alcohol-based deep eutectic solvent. Chin J Chem Eng 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2022.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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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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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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Medeiros-Costa IC, Dib E, Nesterenko N, Dath JP, Gilson JP, Mintova S. Silanol defect engineering and healing in zeolites: opportunities to fine-tune their properties and performances. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 50:11156-11179. [PMID: 34605833 DOI: 10.1039/d1cs00395j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Zeolites have been game-changing materials in oil refining and petrochemistry over the last 60 years and have the potential to play the same role in the emerging processes of the energy and environmental transition. Although zeolites are crystalline inorganic solids, their structures are not perfect and the presence of defect sites - mainly Brønsted acid sites and silanols - influences their thermal and chemical resistance as well as their performances in key areas such as catalysis, gas and liquid separations and ion-exchange. In this paper, we review the type of defects in zeolites and the characterization techniques used for their identification and quantification with the focus on diffraction, spectroscopic and modeling approaches. More specifically, throughout the review, we will focus on silanol (Si-OH) defects located within the micropore structure and/or on the external surface of zeolites. The main approaches applied to engineer and heal defects and their consequences on the properties and applications of zeolites in catalysis and separation processes are highlighted. Finally, the challenges and opportunities of silanol defect engineering in tuning the properties of zeolites to meet the requirements for specific applications are presented.
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- Izabel C Medeiros-Costa
- Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie (LCS), Normandie University, ENSICAEN, CNRS, 6 boulevard du Marechal Juin, 14050 Caen, France. .,Total Research and Technology Feluy, B-7181 Seneffe, Belgium
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- Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie (LCS), Normandie University, ENSICAEN, CNRS, 6 boulevard du Marechal Juin, 14050 Caen, France.
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- Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie (LCS), Normandie University, ENSICAEN, CNRS, 6 boulevard du Marechal Juin, 14050 Caen, France.
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- Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie (LCS), Normandie University, ENSICAEN, CNRS, 6 boulevard du Marechal Juin, 14050 Caen, France.
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Zhou M, Hedlund J. Facile Preparation of Hydrophobic Colloidal MFI and CHA Crystals and Oriented Ultrathin Films. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201806502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Ming Zhou
- Chemical Technology, Department of Civil; Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering; Luleå University of Technology; 97187 Luleå Sweden
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- Chemical Technology, Department of Civil; Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering; Luleå University of Technology; 97187 Luleå Sweden
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Zhou M, Hedlund J. Facile Preparation of Hydrophobic Colloidal MFI and CHA Crystals and Oriented Ultrathin Films. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:10966-10970. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201806502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2018] [Revised: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Ming Zhou
- Chemical Technology, Department of Civil; Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering; Luleå University of Technology; 97187 Luleå Sweden
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- Chemical Technology, Department of Civil; Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering; Luleå University of Technology; 97187 Luleå Sweden
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Miyamoto M, Ono S, Kusukami K, Oumi Y, Uemiya S. High Water Tolerance of a Core-Shell-Structured Zeolite for CO 2 Adsorptive Separation under Wet Conditions. CHEMSUSCHEM 2018; 11:1756-1760. [PMID: 29673091 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201800063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Revised: 04/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Dehumidification in CO2 adsorptive separation processes is an important issue, owing to its high energy consumption. However, available adsorbents such as low-silica zeolites show a significant decrease in CO2 adsorption capacity when water vapor is present. A core-shell-structured MFI-type zeolite with a hydrophilic ZSM-5 coated with a hydrophobic silicalite-1 shell layer was applied in CO2 adsorptive separation under wet conditions. This hybrid material demonstrated remarkably high water tolerance with stable CO2 adsorption performance without additional thermal treatment for regeneration, whereas a significant decrease in the CO2 adsorption amount because of water vapor was observed on the parent ZSM-5. The core-shell structure of zeolites with high pore volumes, such as LTA or CHA, could also be suitable candidates for high CO2 adsorption capacity and high water tolerance for practical applications.
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- Manabu Miyamoto
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Technology, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Technology, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan
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- Division of Instrument Analysis, Life Science Research Center, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan
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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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Interaction of human osteoblast-like Saos-2 cells with stainless steel coated by silicalite-1 films. MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING. C, MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 2017; 76:775-781. [DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2017.03.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2016] [Revised: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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