Improving olefin purification using metal organic frameworks with open metal sites

The separation and purification of light hydrocarbons is challenging in the industry. Recently, a ZJNU-30 metal-organic framework (MOF) has been found to have the potential for adsorption-based separation of olefins and diolefins with four carbon atoms [H. M. Liu et al. Chem. - Eur. J. 2016, 22, 14988-14997]. Our study corroborates this...

Effective model for olefin/paraffin separation using (Co, Fe, Mn, Ni)-MOF-74

An increase in demand for energy efficient processes for the separation of saturated and unsaturated light hydrocarbons mixtures drives the need of noncryogenic processes. The adsorptive separation using Metal-Organic Frameworks with coordinatively unsaturated metal sites may provide a cost-effective alternative due to the strong binding of the...