Zeolites in adsorption processes: State of the art and future prospects

E Pérez-Botella, S Valencia, F Rey - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Zeolites have been widely used as catalysts, ion exchangers, and adsorbents since their
industrial breakthrough in the 1950s and continue to be state-of the-art adsorbents in many …

Microporous metal-organic framework materials for gas separation

RB Lin, S Xiang, W Zhou, B Chen - Chem, 2020 - cell.com
Gas separation is a very important industrial process for manufacturing chemicals, fuels,
plastics, and polymers but is also energy intensive through the traditional cryogenic …

Immobilization of lewis basic sites into a stable ethane-selective MOF enabling one-step separation of ethylene from a ternary mixture

XW Gu, JX Wang, E Wu, H Wu, W Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Purification of C2H4 from a ternary C2H2/C2H6/C2H4 mixture by one-step adsorption
separation is of prime importance but challenging in the petrochemical industry; however …

Energy-efficient separation alternatives: metal–organic frameworks and membranes for hydrocarbon separation

L Yang, S Qian, X Wang, X Cui, B Chen… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrocarbon separation is one of the most critically important and complex industrial
separation processes, offering versatile bulk chemicals and vital support to the national …

A microporous hydrogen‐bonded organic framework for the efficient capture and purification of propylene

J Gao, Y Cai, X Qian, P Liu, H Wu, W Zhou… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Adsorptive separation of propylene/propane (C3H6/C3H8) mixture is desired for its potential
energy saving on replacing currently deployed and energy‐intensive cryogenic distillation …

An ultramicroporous metal–organic framework for high sieving separation of propylene from propane

B Liang, X Zhang, Y Xie, RB Lin… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Highly selective adsorptive separation of olefin/paraffin through porous materials can
produce high purity olefins in a much more energy-efficient way than the traditional …

Metal–organic framework materials for the separation and purification of light hydrocarbons

WG Cui, TL Hu, XH Bu - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The separation and purification of light hydrocarbons (LHs) mixtures is one of the most
significantly important but energy demanding processes in the petrochemical industry. As an …

Designer metal–organic frameworks for size‐exclusion‐based hydrocarbon separations: progress and challenges

H Wang, Y Liu, J Li - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The separation of hydrocarbons is of primary importance in the petrochemical industry but
remains a challenging process. Hydrocarbon separations have traditionally relied …

Construction of Negative Electrostatic Pore Environments in a Scalable, Stable and Low‐Cost Metal‐organic Framework for One‐Step Ethylene Purification from …

HM Wen, C Yu, M Liu, C Lin, B Zhao, H Wu… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
One‐step separation of C2H4 from ternary C2 mixtures by physisorbents remains a
challenge to combine excellent separation performance with high stability, low cost, and …

Secondary building units as the turning point in the development of the reticular chemistry of MOFs

MJ Kalmutzki, N Hanikel, OM Yaghi - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
The secondary building unit (SBU) approach was a turning point in the discovery of
permanently porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and in launching the field of reticular …