High-Throughput Screening to Investigate the Relationship between the Selectivity and Working Capacity of Porous Materials for Propylene/Propane Adsorptive Separation

Authors
Yeo, Byung ChulKim, DonghunKim, HyungjunHan, Sang Soo
Issue Date
2016-10-27
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Citation
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, v.120, no.42, pp.24224 - 24230
Abstract
An efficient propylene/propane separation is a very critical process for saving the cost of energy in the petrochemical industry. For separation based on the pressure-swing adsorption process, we have screened similar to 1 million crystal structures in the Cambridge Structural Database and Inorganic Crystal Structural Database with descriptors such as the surface area of N-2, accessible surface area of propane, and pore-limiting diameter. Next, grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations have been performed to investigate the selectivities and working capacities of propylene/propane under experimental process conditions. Our simulations reveal that the selectivity and the working capacity have a trade-off relationship. To increase the working capacity of propylene, porous materials with high largest cavity diameters (LCDs) and low propylene binding energies (Q(st)) should be considered; conversely, for a high selectivity, porous materials with low LCDs and high propylene Q(st) should be-considered, which leads to a trade-off between the selectivity and the working capacity. In addition, for the design of novel porous materials with a high selectivity, we propose a porous material that includes elements with a high crossover distance in their Lennard-Jones potentials for propylene/propane such as In, Te, Al, and I, along with the low LCD stipulation.
Keywords
METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS; ZEOLITIC IMIDAZOLATE FRAMEWORKS; CARBON-DIOXIDE SEPARATION; HYDROGEN STORAGE CAPACITY; ADSORBED SOLUTION THEORY; UNITED-ATOM DESCRIPTION; TRANSFERABLE POTENTIALS; COORDINATION SITES; PHASE-EQUILIBRIA; METHANE STORAGE; METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS; ZEOLITIC IMIDAZOLATE FRAMEWORKS; CARBON-DIOXIDE SEPARATION; HYDROGEN STORAGE CAPACITY; ADSORBED SOLUTION THEORY; UNITED-ATOM DESCRIPTION; TRANSFERABLE POTENTIALS; COORDINATION SITES; PHASE-EQUILIBRIA; METHANE STORAGE; High-Throughput Screening; Porous Materials; Propylene; Propane; Separation; Gran Canonical Monte Carlo Simulation
ISSN
1932-7447
URI
https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/123543
DOI
10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b08177
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