Fabrication of bimetallic Cu–Zn adsorbents with high dispersion by using confined space for gas adsorptive separation

Yu-Chao Wang, Tian-Tian Li, Li Huang, Xiao-Qin Liu, Lin-Bing Sun

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Front. Chem. Sci. Eng. ›› 2022, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (11) : 1623-1631. DOI: 10.1007/s11705-022-2202-y
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Fabrication of bimetallic Cu–Zn adsorbents with high dispersion by using confined space for gas adsorptive separation

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The number of active components and their dispersion degree are two key factors affecting the performance of adsorbents. Here, we report a simple but efficient strategy for dispersing active components by using a confined space, which is formed by mesoporous silica walls and templates in the as-prepared SBA-15 (AS). Such a confined space does not exist in the conventional support, calcined SBA-15, which does not contain a template. The Cu and Zn precursors were introduced to the confined space in the AS and were converted to CuO and ZnO during calcination, during which the template was also removed. The results show that up to 5 mmol·g–1 of CuO and ZnO can be well dispersed; however, severe aggregation of both oxides takes place in the sample derived from the calcined SBA-15 with the same loading. Confined space in the AS and the strong interactions caused by the abundant hydroxyl groups are responsible for the dispersion of CuO and ZnO. The bimetallic materials were employed for the adsorptive separation of propene and propane. The samples prepared from the as-prepared SBA-15 showed superior performance to their counterparts from the calcined SBA-15 in terms of both adsorption capacity of propene and selectivity for propene/propane.

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bimetallic adsorbents / confined space / mesoporous silica / propene/propane separation

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Yu-Chao Wang, Tian-Tian Li, Li Huang, Xiao-Qin Liu, Lin-Bing Sun. Fabrication of bimetallic Cu–Zn adsorbents with high dispersion by using confined space for gas adsorptive separation. Front. Chem. Sci. Eng., 2022, 16(11): 1623‒1631 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-022-2202-y

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the financial support of this work by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 22125804, 22078155, and 21878149).

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