Adsorption Property of Starch-Based Microporous Carbon Materials with High Selectivity and Uptake for C1/C2/C3 Separation
2021
Ke, Zhanfan | Xiao, Huiyu | Wen, Yijing | Du, Shengjun | Zhou, Xin | Xiao, Jing | Li, Zhong
Recovering light hydrocarbons from natural gas is of great significance in the petrochemical industry. In this work, starch-based microporous carbon materials (SMCs) were prepared using starch as a carbon source and characterized for their pore structure and surface chemistry. CH₄, C₂H₆, and C₃H₈ isotherms of SMCs were determined using a volumetric method. The breakthrough experiments were carried out to evaluate the dynamic separation performance. A grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation was conducted to reveal the adsorption mechanism of these light hydrocarbons on the SMCs. Results showed that the resulting SMCs exhibited a high specific surface area of 1999 m²/g and a narrow pore size distribution within 0.5–2.0 nm. Particularly, SMCs displayed extremely high ethane and propane uptakes at 298 K and 100 kPa, reaching 5.28 mmol/g for C₂H₆ and 8.39 mmol/g for C₃H₈. Moreover, SMCs showed an ultrahigh selectivity of 27.1 for C₂H₆/CH₄ mixtures under ambient conditions, which exceeded that of many metal–organic frameworks. Thus, SMCs have the potential for recovering light hydrocarbons from natural gas.
显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]