Novel modified zeolites for energy-efficient hydrocarbon separations.
- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
- Burns and McDonnell, Kansas City, MO
- Goodyear Chemical Company, Akron, OH
- Goodyear Chemical Company, Akron, OH
We present synthesis, characterization and testing results of our applied research project, which focuses on the effects of surface and skeletal modification of zeolites for significant enhancements in current hydrocarbon (HC) separations. Zeolites are commonly used by the chemical and petroleum industries as catalysts and ion-exchangers. They have high potential for separations owing to their unique pore structures and adsorption properties and their thermal, mechanical and chemical properties. Because of zeolites separation properties, low cost, and robustness in industrial process, they are natural choice for use as industrial adsorbents. This is a multidisciplinary effort to research, design, develop, engineer, and test new and improved materials for the separation of branched vs. linear organic molecules found in commercially important HC streams via adsorption based separations. The focus of this project was the surface and framework modification of the commercially available zeolites, while tuning the adsorption properties and the selectivities of the bulk and membrane separations. In particular, we are interested with our partners at Goodyear Chemical, on how to apply the modified zeolites to feedstock isoprene purification. For the characterization and the property measurements of the new and improved materials powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), Residual Gas Analyzer-Mass Spectroscopy (RGA-MS), Electron Microscopy (SEM/EDAX), temperature programmed desorption (TPD) and surface area techniques were utilized. In-situ carbonization of MFI zeolite membranes allowed for the maximum separation of isoprene from n-pentane, with a 4.1% enrichment of the binary stream with n-pentane. In four component streams, a modified MFI membrane had high selectivities for n-pentane and 1-3-pentadiene over isoprene but virtually no separation for the 2-methyl-2-butene/isoprene pair.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 899372
- Report Number(s):
- SAND2006-6891; TRN: US200708%%408
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ADSORBENTS
ADSORPTION
CARBONIZATION
CATALYSTS
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
DESORPTION
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
HYDROCARBONS
ISOPRENE
MEMBRANES
PETROLEUM
PORE STRUCTURE
PURIFICATION
SPECTROSCOPY
SURFACE AREA
SYNTHESIS
TESTING
TUNING
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
ZEOLITES
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Hydrocarbons-Research.
Zeolites.
Separation (chemical engineering)