Integration of ordered porous materials for targeted three-component gas separation
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 d...
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| author | 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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| description | 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 C2H2-selective and the other for CO2-selective) as the shell pores were respectively grown on a C2H6-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 C2H2/C2H4/C2H6 and CO2/C2H4/C2H6 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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| spelling | doaj-art-e4b6f3b403ab4f9e8728685f47ba32812025-01-19T12:30:28ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232025-01-0116111010.1038/s41467-025-55991-yIntegration of ordered porous materials for targeted three-component gas separationXue Jiang0Yu Wang1Hui Wang2Lu Cheng3Jian-Wei Cao4Jin-Bo Wang5Rong Yang6Dong-Hui Zhang7Run-Ye Zhang8Xiu-Bo Yang9Su-Hang Wang10Qiu-Yu Zhang11Kai-Jie Chen12Key Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityKey Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversitySchool of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityKey Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityKey Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityKey Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityKey Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityThe Research Center of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin UniversityThe Research Center of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin UniversityAnalytical & Testing Center of Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityKey Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityKey Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityKey Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityAbstract 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 C2H2-selective and the other for CO2-selective) as the shell pores were respectively grown on a C2H6-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 C2H2/C2H4/C2H6 and CO2/C2H4/C2H6 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.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-55991-y |
| spellingShingle | 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 Integration of ordered porous materials for targeted three-component gas separation Nature Communications |
| title | Integration of ordered porous materials for targeted three-component gas separation |
| title_full | Integration of ordered porous materials for targeted three-component gas separation |
| title_fullStr | Integration of ordered porous materials for targeted three-component gas separation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integration of ordered porous materials for targeted three-component gas separation |
| title_short | Integration of ordered porous materials for targeted three-component gas separation |
| title_sort | integration of ordered porous materials for targeted three component gas separation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-55991-y |
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