Integration of Ordered Porous Materials for Targeted Three-component Gas Separation

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Date 2025 Jan 15

PMID 39814727

Authors

Xue Jiang

Yu Wang

Hui Wang

Lu Cheng

Jian-Wei Cao

Jin-Bo Wang

Rong Yang

Dong-Hui Zhang

Run-Ye Zhang

Xiu-Bo Yang

Su-Hang Wang

Qiu-Yu Zhang

Kai-Jie Chen

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Abstract

Separation of multi-component mixtures in an energy-efficient manner has important practical impact in chemical industry but is highly challenging. Especially, targeted simultaneous removal of multiple impurities to purify the desired product in one-step separation process is an extremely difficult task. We introduced a pore integration strategy of modularizing ordered pore structures with specific functions for on-demand assembly to deal with complex multi-component separation systems, which are unattainable by each individual pore. As a proof of concept, two ultramicroporous nanocrystals (one for CH-selective and the other for CO-selective) as the shell pores were respectively grown on a CH-selective ordered porous material as the core pore. Both of the respective pore-integrated materials show excellent one-step ethylene production performance in dynamic breakthrough separation experiments of CH/CH/CH and CO/CH/CH gas mixture, and even better than that from traditional tandem-packing processes originated from the optimized mass/heat transfer. Thermodynamic and dynamic simulation results explained that the pre-designed pore modules can perform specific target functions independently in the pore-integrated materials.

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