Issue 35, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Temperature controlled invertible selectivity for adsorption of N2 and CH4 by molecular trapdoor chabazites†

Jin Shang,*ab   Gang Li,c   Qinfen Gu,d   Ranjeet Singh,ab   Penny Xiao,ab   Jefferson Z. Liu*e  and  Paul A. Webley*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Cooperative Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC), Melbourne, Australia

b Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
E-mail: jin.shang@unimelb.edu.au, paul.webley@unimelb.edu.au

c Centre for Energy, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia

d Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Rd, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

e Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
E-mail: zhe.liu@monash.edu

Abstract

We report an unusual operating regime for a chabazite zeolite in which the adsorption selectivity for N2 over CH4 inverts from being more selective for N2 at 253 K, to becoming less selective with increasing temperature and eventually becoming selective for CH4 over N2 above 293 K.

Graphical abstract: Temperature controlled invertible selectivity for adsorption of N2 and CH4 by molecular trapdoor chabazites

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC00269E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Jan 2014
Accepted
03 Feb 2014
First published
03 Feb 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 4544-4546

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Temperature controlled invertible selectivity for adsorption of N2 and CH4 by molecular trapdoor chabazites

J. Shang, G. Li, Q. Gu, R. Singh, P. Xiao, J. Z. Liu and P. A. Webley, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 4544 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC00269E

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