MOF-5 and activated carbons as adsorbents for gas storage |
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Authors: | JP Marco-Lozar J Juan-JuanF Suárez-García D Cazorla-AmorósA Linares-Solano |
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Affiliation: | Grupo de Materiales Carbonosos y Medio Ambiente, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Alicante, E-03080 Alicante, Spain |
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Abstract: | This paper reports comparatively the capacities of two activated carbons (ACs) and MOF-5 for storing gases. It analyzes, using similar equipments and experimental procedures, the density used to convert gravimetric data to volumetric ones, measuring the density (tap and packing at different pressures). It presents data on porosity, surface area and gas storage (H2, CH4 and CO2) obtained under different temperatures (77 K and RT) and pressures (0.1, 4 and 20 MPa). MOF-5 presents lower volume of narrow micropores than both ACs, making its storage at RT lower, independently of the gas used (H2, CH4 and CO2) and the basis of reporting data (gravimetric or volumetric). For H2 at 77 K the reliability of the results depends too much on the density used. It is shown that the outstanding volumetric performance of MOF-5, in relation to ACs, is due to the use of an unrealistic high density (crystal density) that, not including the adsorbent inter-particle space, gives an apparently high volumetric gas storage capacity. When a density measured similarly in both types of adsorbents is used (e.g. tap or packing densities) MOF-5 presents, for all gases and conditions studied, lower adsorption capacities on volumetric basis and storage capacities than ACs. |
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Keywords: | Actived carbons Metal-organic frameworks Hydrogen storage Gas storage Material density |
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