The separation of propadiene from propyne/propadiene mixtures remains challenging. Here, the authors report a sorbent screening protocol and show that metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with open metal sites and cage-based molecule traps exhibit high performance for propyne/propadiene separation.
a Schematic diagram of the hydrocarbon cracking process. b Comparison of molecular size, kinetic diameter, and b.p difference of acetylene and ethylene, propyne and propylene and propyne and propadiene.
Efficient propyne/propadiene separation by microporous crystalline physiadsorbents
a Schematic diagram of the hydrocarbon cracking process. b Comparison of molecular size, kinetic diameter, and b.p difference of acetylene and ethylene, propyne and propylene and propyne and propadiene.
Check out the latest research article by the Space research group on materials modeling work for chemically important separation processes published in Nature Communications 12, Article number: 5768 (2021) on October 1, 2021.
