Pure and Binary Gas Adsorption Equilibria and Kinetics of Methane and Nitrogen on 4A Zeolite by Isotope Exchange Technique

The Isotope Exchange Technique (IET) was used to simultaneously measure pure and binary gas adsorption equilibria and kinetics (self-diffusivities) of CH₄ and N₂ on pelletized 4A zeolite. The experiment was carried out isothermally without disturbing the adsorbed phase. CH₄ was selectively adsorbed over N₂ by the zeolite because of its higher polarizability. The multi-site Langmuir model described the pure gas and binary adsorption equilibria fairly well at three different temperatures. The selectivity of adsorption of CH₄ over N₂ increased with increasing pressure at constant gas phase composition and temperature. This curious behavior was caused by the differences in the sizes of the adsorbates. The diffusion of CH₄ and N₂ into the zeolite was an activated process and the Fickian diffusion model described the uptake of both pure gases and their mixtures. The self-diffusivity of N₂ was an order of magnitude larger than that for CH₄. The pure gas self-diffusivities for both components were constants over a large range of surface coverages (0 < < 0.5). The self-diffusivities of CH₄ and N₂ from their binary mixtures were not affected by the presence of each other, compared to their pure gas self-diffusivities at identical surface coverages.     

Synthesis,characterization and catalytic oxidation of cyclohexene with molecular oxygen over host (nanopores of zeolite-Y)/guest ([Ni([R]2-N2X2)]2+ (R = H,CH3; X = NH,O, S) nanocatalyst

Nickel(II) complexes of 12-membered macrocyclic ligands with different donating atoms (N₂O₂, N₂S₂ and N₄) in the macrocyclic ring have been encapsulated in the nanocavity of zeolite-Y by the fexible-ligand method. Nickel(II) complexes with macrocyclic ligands were entrapped in the nanocavity of zeolite-Y by a two-step process in the liquid phase: (i) adsorption of precursor ligand; 1,2-di(o-aminophenyl-, amino, oxo, thio)ethane, N₂X₂; in the supercages of the Ni(II)–NaY, and (ii) in situ condensation of the Ni(II) precursor complex; [Ni(N₂X₂)]²⁺; with glyoxal or biacetyl. The new host–guest nanocatalysts (HGNM), [Ni([R]₂-N₂X₂)]²⁺–NaY (R = H, CH₃; X = NH, O, S), have been characterized by FT-IR, DRS and UV–Vis spectroscopic techniques, XRD and elemental analysis, as well as nitrogen adsorption, and were used for oxidation of cyclohexene with molecular oxygen.     

An infrared study of adsorption of N2O on ZnO

The adsorption of N₂O on finely divided ZnO at room temperature shows two principal infrared absorption bands at 2237 cm⁻¹ (strong) and 1255 cm⁻¹ (weak), corresponding to the reversible adsorption of an N₂O surface species. The N₂O is postulated to be coordinated to Zn²⁺ cations by the oxygen atom. Water pre-treatment of the ZnO surface gives only weak bands from adsorbed N₂O, indicating that the latter's adsorption site is taken up by adsorbed water. Spectroscopic experiments on ‘reduced’ surfaces of ZnO at 200°C show that limited reaction of N₂O with the surface has occurred, presumably through decomposition to nitrogen and adsorbed oxygen. New adsorptions on the ZnO surface itself, and a reduced amount of reversibly adsorbed N₂O, implied a reduction in pressure of the adsorbate. Such effects were not observed appreciably over ‘oxidised’ ZnO.     

调控高稳定CAU-10-X(X=H、NO2、CH3)孔化学环境以实现N2O高效捕获

合成3种具有不同取代基（—X）的金属有机骨架（MOFs）材料CAU-10-X（X=H、NO₂、CH₃）,研究了从N₂O/N₂混合物中吸附捕获N₂O的性能。综合单组分吸附等温线、吸附热和IAST（理想溶液吸附理论）选择性的实验结果,发现CAU-10-NO₂在低压区的N₂O吸附量明显高于母体CAU-10-H,其可以有效地从N₂O/N₂混合物中捕集N₂O,而CAU-10-CH₃则表现出相反的效果。N₂O/N₂混合物的穿透模拟进一步证明CAU-10-NO₂对微量N₂O具有较好的捕获能力,循环实验显示该材料具有良好的稳定性。     

Adsorption of liquid mixtures on silicalite-1 zeolite: a density-bottle method

A technique that measures the effective density of a zeolite after adsorption from the liquid phase was developed to measure the absolute amounts of liquid mixtures adsorbed on zeolites without using a nonadsorbing solvent. Since the fugacities of the adsorbing components in solution can be dramatically different with or without the addition of a nonadsorbing solvent, this technique measures mixture isotherms that can be used for analyzing pervaporation through zeolite membranes. A nonideal solution, methanol/acetone, was used as an example to show that its adsorption isotherms on silicalite-1 zeolite at 294 K differ dramatically from those measured with the nonadsorbing solvent method. The methanol/acetone fugacity ratio is different for the two methods because of different concentrations in the liquid phase. Methanol preferentially adsorbs on silicalite-1 at low methanol concentrations and acetone preferentially adsorbs at high methanol concentrations. The density bottle method was used to show that n-hexane preferentially adsorbs from n-hexane/3-methylpentane liquid mixtures, and at high n-hexane concentrations, essentially no 3-methylpentane adsorbs, as has been predicted previously by simulations. A larger molecule, 2,2-dimethylbutane, adsorbed so slowly at 294 K that silicalite had only 16% of saturation coverage after 370 h, but it was saturated after 1650 h; at 423 K, saturation was obtained in less than 24 h.     

An XPS and STM study of the size effect in NO adsorption on gold nanoparticles

The effect of the gold particle size, temperature of the model gold catalyst, and NO pressure on the composition of the adsorption layer was studied by in situ XPS and STM methods. Adsorption of nitric oxide was carried out on gold nanoparticles with a mean size of 2?C7 nm prepared on the thin film surface of alumina. In high-vacuum conditions (P _NO ?? 10^?5 Pa), only atomically adsorbed nitrogen is formed on the surface of gold nanoparticles. At about 1 Pa pressure of NO and in the temperature range from 325 to 475 K, atomically adsorbed nitrogen coexists with the N₂O adsorption complex. The surface concentration of the adsorbed species changes with a change in both the mean gold particle size and adsorption temperature. The saturation coverage of the surface with the nitrogen-containing complexes is observed for the sample with a mean size of gold particles of 4 nm. The surface of these samples is mainly covered with atomically adsorbed nitrogen, the saturation coverage of adsorbed nitrogen of about ??0.6 monolayer is attained at T = 473 K. The change in the composition of the adsorption layer with temperature of the catalysts agrees with the literature data on the corresponding temperature dependence of the selectivity of N₂ formation observed in the catalytic reduction of NO with carbon monoxide on the Au/Al₂O₃ catalyst. The dependences of the composition of the adsorption layer on the mean size of Au nanoparticles (size effect) and temperature of the catalyst are explained by the sensitivity of NO adsorption to specific features of the gold surface.     

在不同覆盖度下二组分气体在硅胶上的吸附规律

The composition adsorption isotherms (ya~xg curve) for acetone-n-hexane, benzene-n-hexane, toluene-n-hexane and n-pentance-n-hexane vapor mixtures on silica gel with different surface coverage (θ) at 25℃ were measured. The experimental results indicated that the ya ~ xg curves approached gradually down to corresponding binary liquid-vapor equllibrium curves with increasing of surface coverage. Therefore, the binary adsorbed phases are similarly with the binary liquid phase. Except for acetone-n-hexane system, which had a minimum boiling point, the composition adsorption isotherms of the other three binary systems could be simulated by equation of relative volatility.     

Void volume determination and experimental probes in reversed phase chromatography

Summary In reversed-phase liquid chromatography with n-alkyl bonded silica, the dead volume (V₀) of the column is theoretically indeterminate owing to adsorption of organic modifier on n-alkyl chains and of water on silanol groups. With binary mobile phases, retention volumes of the mobile phase components and of their deuterated species are relaeed to the adsorption isotherms and V₀ by equations which can be solved with some assumptions on the adsorbed layer composition. Methanol-water and acetonitrile-water systems are studied. As the experimental excess isotherm shows a linear part in the concentration range 50–80% in organic modifier, the hypothesis of an adsorbed layer of constant composition in this range is possible. When increasing the water content of the mobile phase, adsorption of water occurs up to saturation of silanol groups. Then the assumption of a constant water content for a mobile phase having more than 50% of water is applied. With the hypothesis of a constant adsorbed content of organic modifier when the eluent has more than 80% of organic modifier, V₀ and the absolute isotherms are calculated over the entire range of mobile phase composition. Experimental retention behavior of the mobile phase components are totally explained by these V₀ determinations. The retention times of commonly used V₀ markers are compared with V₀ values. It is shown that, when buffering the eluent, no visible effect on the distribution equilibrium is observed, so that injection of concentrated potassium nitrate is a convenient method to measure V₀. With a few solutes with are UV detectable it is possible to measure V₀ whatever the mobile phase composition in methanol-water and acetonitrile-water systems.     

源自密胺基多孔聚合物的富氮微孔炭及选择性吸附CO_2

以间苯二甲醛和三聚氰胺为原料,通过Schiff碱缩合反应合成了密胺基多孔聚合物(POP),经高温炭化后得到富氮微孔炭(NMC).利用N2吸脱附和傅里叶变换红外(FTIR)光谱表征了POP和炭化后产物NMC的结构和组成,与POP相比,NMC的官能团数量减少,比表面积和微孔孔容大幅增加.元素分析表明NMC含氮量高达12.5%(w).采用体积法测定了CO2、CH4和N2在NMC上的单组分吸附平衡等温线,NMC展示出良好的CO2吸附性能,298 K、100 kPa下CO2平衡吸附量可达2.34 mmol·g-1.双位Langmuir(DSL)模型和单位Langmuir(SSL)模型分别较好地描述了CO2、CH4和N2在NMC上的吸附平衡数据,在此基础上,应用理想吸附溶液理论(IAST)预测了双组分混合气在NMC上的吸附等温线,结果表明NMC对CO2-N2和CO2-CH4有非常高的CO2吸附选择性,分别为144.9和12.8.     

A computational study of CO2, N2, and CH4 adsorption in zeolites

The adsorption properties of CO₂, N₂ and CH₄ in all-silica zeolites were studied using molecular simulations. Adsorption isotherms for single components in MFI were both measured and computed showing good agreement. In addition simulations in other all silica structures were performed for a wide range of pressures and temperatures and for single components as well as binary and ternary mixtures with varying bulk compositions. The adsorption selectivity was analyzed for mixtures with bulk composition of 50:50 CO₂/CH₄, 50:50 CO₂/N₂, 10:90 CO₂/N₂ and 5:90:5 CO₂/N₂/CH₄ in MFI, MOR, ISV, ITE, CHA and DDR showing high selectivity of adsorption of CO₂ over N₂ and CH₄ that varies with the type of crystal and with the mixture bulk composition.     

A model of the two-stage condensation mechanism of water adsorption on nonporous carbon adsorbents

The mechanism of adsorption of water molecules on nonporous carbon adsorbents has been suggested in terms of two different states of adsorbed water; stretched liquid water and water that occupies an intermediate state between the liquid and vapor. Two stages of adsorption were distinguished: condensation and pre-condensation that assumes the formation of molecular associates. The BET model was used to describe the pre-condensation stage. The equations of the adsorption isotherm for water vapor in the region of condensation process and the expression for the determination of the specific hydrophilic surface of adsorbents were found. Examination of the experimental data on adsorption of water vapor on nongraphitized samples of carbon adsorbents shows that in the region of polymolecular adsorption, all isotherms fall into a common curve determined by the equation of the stretched liquid film and can be calculated regardless of the properties of individual liquid water. The equation for adsorption of water vapor on the hydrophobic surface was obtained. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 1933–1939, October, 1998.     

The Formation and Self‐Assembly of Long Prebiotic Oligomers Produced by the Condensation of Unactivated Amino Acids on Oxide Surfaces

In situ IR and mass spectrometry evidence for the catalytic formation on SiO₂ and TiO₂ surfaces of glycine oligomers (poly‐Gly) up to 16 units long by successive feeding with monomers from the vapor phase is presented. Parallel experiments carried out on hydroxyapatite resulted in the unreactive adsorption of Gly, thus indicating that the oligomerization was specifically catalyzed by the surfaces of SiO₂ and TiO₂. Furthermore, the poly‐Gly moved on the surface when contacted with H₂O vapor and formed self‐assembled aggregates containing both helical and β‐sheet‐like structural motifs. These results indicate that polypeptides formed by the condensation of amino acids adsorbed on a mineral surface can evolve into structured supramolecular assemblies.     

Extension of the exp-6 model to the simulation of vapor-liquid equilibria of primary alcohols and their mixtures

Configurational-biased Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulations were performed to obtain the phase behavior of the homologous series of primary alcohols from ethanol to 1-heptanol. Molecular interactions in these systems are modeled by a newly developed exp-6 potential in combination with a Coulombic intermolecular potential. Some of exp-6 potential parameters required to describe these alcohols were taken from the previous literature data reported for methanol and n-alkanes. The oxygen's potential parameters were optimized to fit the coexistence curve of these alcohols to the experimental data. Simulated values of saturated liquid and vapor densities, vapor pressures and critical constants of the alcohols are in good agreement with experimental data. The efficiency of the new model in the prediction of binary phase diagram of water/ethanol and n-hexane/1-propanol mixtures is also evaluated. The calculated mole fractions in the vapor and liquid phases of these binary mixtures also show satisfactory agreement with the experimental data.     

Adsorption of gases on layered silicates at high pressures

Equilibrium adsorption of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and argon was examined on the sodium and pyridinium forms of montmorillonite and on the hydrogen form of bentonite. The measurements were carried out at 303, 343, 373, and 400 K over pressure ranges of 0.1–90 MPa (Ar and N₂) and 0.1–6 MPa (CO₂). The amount of nitrogen vapor adsorbed was determined at 77 K and pressures from 0 to 0.1 MPa. The porous structure parameters of the studied samples were determined using adsorption isotherms of nitrogen, argon, and carbon dioxide vapors. At elevated temperatures and pressures >10 MPa, Ar and N₂ adsorption processes on the Na-form of montmorillonite and Ar adsorption on bentonite are activated, since the amounts of the gases adsorbed and adsorption volumes increase with temperature. No activated adsorption is observed for carbon dioxide adsorption on these adsorbents. A comparison of the excess adsorption isotherms of gases on the Py-form of montmorillonite and H-form of bentonite shows that adsorption in micropores predominates for the Py-form of montmorillonite, whereas for the Na-form of bentonite and H-form of bentonite adsorption occurs mainly in meso- and macropores.     

Determination of absolute gas adsorption isotherms: simple method based on the potential theory for buoyancy effect correction of pure gas and gas mixtures adsorption

The absolute adsorption isotherms are necessary to correctly evaluate the selectivity of the adsorbent material or to design adsorption processes at high pressure (e.g., H₂ purification from syngas processes, removal of acid gas from natural gas,…). The aim of this work is thus to propose an easy method to correct the buoyancy effect of the bulk phase on the adsorbed phase volume during both pure gas and gas mixtures adsorption for pressures up to 10 MPa. The potential theory of adsorption and the Dubinin–Radushkevich relation are adapted by introducing mixing parameters based on simple Berthelot rules. The concept of internal pressure used to characterize the adsorbed phase is also adapted for mixtures. The method is then improved on a commercial activated carbon (AC), when adsorbing pure H₂S and CH₄, and their mixtures up to 5 MPa. The study points out the importance to carefully consider the buoyancy effect of the bulk phase on the adsorbed phase volume. Its impact on the adsorbent material selectivity at high pressures could affect the design and the performances of PSA or TSA processes. For example, only considering the excess adsorption data leads to an apparent selectivity 13 % greater than the absolute one for a concentration of 6 ppm of H₂S in a CH₄ matrix at 5 MPa (298 K) on the AC.     

High Pressure Adsorption Data of Methane, Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and their Binary and Ternary Mixtures on Activated Carbon

Adsorption equilibria of the gases CH₄, N₂, and CO₂ and their binary and ternary mixtures on activated carbon Norit R1 Extra have been measured in the pressure range 0 P 6 MPa at T = 298 K. Pure gas adsorption equilibria were measured gravimetrically. Coadsorption data of the three binary mixtures CH₄/N₂, CH₄/CO₂, and CO₂/N₂ were obtained by the volume-gravimetric method. Isotherms of five ternary mixtures CH₄/CO₂/N₂ were measured using the volumetric-chromatographic method. First, we present in a short overview the method and procedure of measurement. In a second part, the measured data of pressures, surface excess amounts adsorbed and absolute amounts adsorbed are presented and analyzed. In the last part of the paper the resulting pure gas adsorption data are correlated using a generalized dual-site Langmuir isotherm. Mixture adsorption can be predicted by this model using only pure component parameters with fair accuracy. Results are presented and discussed in several tables and figures.     

An experimental study of three- and four-phase equilibria for isopropanol—water—carbon dioxide mixtures at elevated pressures

Compositions and molar volumes of the three phases in liquid—liquid—gas equilibrium are reported for ternary mixtures of isopropanol, water and CO₂ at elevated pressures and at temperatures of 50 and 60°C. Phase compositions and molar volumes were also obtained for three-phase, liquid—liquid—liquid equilibrium and four-phase, liquid—liquid—liquid—gas equilibrium at 40°C. Gas—liquid and liquid—liquid critical endpoints, which represent pressure bounds on the liquid—liquid—gas region at 60°C, were determined from observations of critical opalescence.The phase behavior exhibited by the isopropanol—water—CO₂ system is quite complex, particularly at conditions near the critical point of CO₂. These conditions are well within the range of operating conditions proposed for supercritical-fluid extraction of organic compounds from water using CO₂. Therefore, the existence of multiple coexisting phases can be an important factor in designing and operating such extraction processes.     

NMR Study of the Kinetics of Butane and Hexane Adsorption from Vapor Phase by Porous Glasses

The kinetics of butane and hexane sorption from vapor phase by porous glasses is studied by the pulsed NMR technique. The sorption process is revealed to proceed in two stages: monomolecular adsorption and capillary condensation. The rate of adsorption is limited by the rate of adsorbate transfer to the adsorbent surface, with the latter rate being described by the classical diffusion flux. It is shown that ultramicropores are filled simultaneously with the formation of a monolayer. The relative content of molecules in such pores is estimated. At the stage of monomolecular adsorption and at the initial stage of capillary condensation, when the adsorption proceeds from the vapor phase of butane-hexane or butane-deuterated hexane mixtures, butane molecules are predominantly sorbed and followed by their partial displacement by hexane molecules. The rate of the capillary condensation of butane from the mixture is 15–18-fold lower than that from the vapor phase of butane alone which is explained by a decrease in the gradient of chemical potential. It is shown that, when adsorption occurs from a nonequilibrium butane-hexane mixture, anomalous kinetic curves are observed because the driving force of adsorption changes in the course of establishing equilibrium in the liquid phase.