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Chemistry. 2015 Dec 07;21(50):18431-8. doi: 10.1002/chem.201502893. Epub 2015 Oct 30.

Adsorptive Separation of Acetylene from Light Hydrocarbons by Mesoporous Iron Trimesate MIL-100(Fe).

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)

Ji Woong Yoon, Ji Sun Lee, Sukyung Lee, Kyoung Ho Cho, Young Kyu Hwang, Marco Daturi, Chul-Ho Jun, Rajamani Krishna, Jong-San Chang

Affiliations

  1. Research Center for Nanocatalysts, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), P.O. Box 107, Yusung, Daejeon 305-600 (Korea).
  2. Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie, ENSICAEN, Université de Caen, CNRS, 6 Bd. Maréchal Juin, 14050, Caen (France).
  3. Department of Chemistry, Center for Bioactive Molecular Hybrid, Yonsei University, Seodamoonku, Seoul 120-749 (Republic of Korea).
  4. van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam 1098 XH (The Netherlands). [email protected].
  5. Research Center for Nanocatalysts, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), P.O. Box 107, Yusung, Daejeon 305-600 (Korea). [email protected].
  6. Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-476 (Korea). [email protected].

PMID: 26515022 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201502893

Abstract

A reducible metal-organic framework (MOF), iron(III) trimesate, denoted as MIL-100(Fe), was investigated for the separation and purification of methane/ethane/ethylene/acetylene and an acetylene/CO2 mixtures by using sorption isotherms, breakthrough experiments, ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) calculations, and IR spectroscopic analysis. The MIL-100(Fe) showed high adsorption selectivity not only for acetylene and ethylene over methane and ethane, but also for acetylene over CO2 . The separation and purification of acetylene over ethylene was also possible for MIL-100(Fe) activated at 423 K. According to the data obtained from operando IR spectroscopy, the unsaturated Fe(III) sites and surface OH groups are mainly responsible for the successful separation of the acetylene/ethylene mixture, whereas the unsaturated Fe(II) sites have a detrimental effect on both separation and purification. The potential of MIL-100(Fe) for the separation of a mixture of C2 H2 /CO2 was also examined by using the IAST calculations and transient breakthrough simulations. Comparing the IAST selectivity calculations of C2 H2 /CO2 for four MOFs selected from the literature, the selectivity with MIL-100(Fe) was higher than those of CuBTC, ZJU-60a, and PCP-33, but lower than that of HOF-3.

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Keywords: IR spectroscopy; adsorption; gas separation; iron; metal-organic frameworks

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