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Abstract
Efficient separation of ethane and ethylene has been a long-standing challenge for the chemical industry. In this study, we use molecular modeling to identify zeolite and zeotype frameworks that have the potential to be the next-generation solution for the separation of these C2 compounds. Using two different united-atom versions of the transferable potentials for phase equilibria (TraPPE) force field, the zeolitic structures in the database of the International Zeolite Association are screened for the separation of ethane and ethylene. A detailed analysis, with regards to accessibility of favorable sites and sensitivity to molecular models (also considering the explicit-hydrogen TraPPE model for ethane), is carried out on the top-performing structures. This study provides insights on the performance and limitations of molecular models for predicting mixture adsorption in zeolites.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 619-626 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Molecular Systems Design and Engineering |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences under Award DE-FG02– 17ER16362, as part of the Computational Chemical Sciences Program. The authors also thank the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) at the University of Minnesota for providing computational resources used for adsorption isotherms. The calculation of the PMFs also used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. MSS and EOF acknowledge support from University of Minnesota through a Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
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© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
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