CO Adsorption Performance of CuCl/Activated Carbon by Simultaneous Reduction–Dispersion of Mixed Cu(II) Salts

Cailong Xue,Jinghong Ma,Wenming Hao,Ruifeng Li,Wenping Cheng

doi:10.3390/ma12101605

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Journal: Materials	Publication Date: May 16, 2019
Citations: 28	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Taiyuan University of Technology

Abstract

CO is a toxic gas discharged as a byproduct in tail gases from different industrial flue gases, which needs to be taken care of urgently. In this study, a CuCl/AC adsorbent was made by a facile route of physically mixing CuCl2 and Cu(HCOO)2 powder with activated carbon (AC), followed by heating at 533 K under vacuum. The samples were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), N2 adsorption/desorption, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It was shown that Cu(II) can be completely reduced to Cu(I), and the monolayer dispersion threshold of CuCl on AC support is 4 mmol·g−1 AC. The adsorption isotherms of CO, CO2, CH4, and N2 on CuCl/AC adsorbents were measured by the volumetric method, and the CO/CO2, CO/CH4, and CO/N2 selectivities of the adsorbents were predicted using ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST). The obtained adsorbent displayed a high CO adsorption capacity, high CO/N2, CO/CH4, and CO/CO2 selectivities, excellent ad/desorption cycle performance, rapid adsorption rate, and appropriate isosteric heat of adsorption, which made it a promising adsorbent for CO separation and purification.

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With the rapid development of C−1 chemistry recently in the chemical industry, carbon monoxide (CO) as a significant resource has been widely applied to prepare a large variety of chemical products, such as formic acid, acetic acid, oxalic acid ester, carbonic acid two methyl ester, anhydride, etc. [1,2].Most of these preparations need high-purity CO
The absence of CuCl diffraction peak on Cu(I)-2/activated carbon (AC), Cu(I)-3/AC, and Cu(I)-4/AC samples might be due to the well dispersion of CuCl on the AC surface beyond the detection limit of X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) [36]
By further increasing the copper loading to and 6 mmol·g−1, the appearance of the characteristic peak of CuCl implies that the crystal size of

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Introduction

With the rapid development of C−1 chemistry recently in the chemical industry, carbon monoxide (CO) as a significant resource has been widely applied to prepare a large variety of chemical products, such as formic acid, acetic acid, oxalic acid ester, carbonic acid two methyl ester, anhydride, etc. [1,2].Most of these preparations need high-purity CO. With the rapid development of C−1 chemistry recently in the chemical industry, carbon monoxide (CO) as a significant resource has been widely applied to prepare a large variety of chemical products, such as formic acid, acetic acid, oxalic acid ester, carbonic acid two methyl ester, anhydride, etc. A significant amount of CO is discharged as a byproduct in tail gases from different industrial flue gases including carbon black tail gas, silicon carbide furnace gas, yellow phosphorus tail gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, etc. The separation and purification of CO from different gas mixtures have significance both industrially and environmentally

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