Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (12): 2813.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20200327

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Two-stage Varying-temperature Synthesis of MFI Zeolite Membrane and Their Separation Performance for Xylene Isomers

XIA Dunyan, PENG Li, WU Zhengqi, WANG Linzhi, JIA Yimin, ZHANG Chun, GU Xuehong()   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Materials?Oriented Chemical Engineering,Nanjing Tech University,Nanjing 210000,China
  • Received:2020-06-04 Online:2020-12-10 Published:2020-12-09
  • Contact: GU Xuehong E-mail:xhgu@njtech.edu.cn

Abstract:

MFI zeolite membranes were prepared in situ on alumina supports by constant temperature and two-stage varying-temperature synthesis methods, respectively. The MFI zeolite membranes synthesized by the constant temperature method were composed of large crystals and had no separation performance for PX/OX due to the large defects caused by template removal at high temperature. The membranes synthesized by two-stage varying-temperature synthesis method were composed of the zeolite crystals with smaller sizes in a and b directions, and the formation of defects can be avoided during template removal at high temperature. A good separation performance for PX/OX at 300 ℃ with a separation factor of 42 and the PX permeance of 9.57×10-9 mol·m-2·s-1·Pa-1 can be obtained. Detemplation at low temperature in ozone atmosphere can effectively avoid the formation of large defects to improve the membranes, performance by reducing the stress caused by the thermal shrinkage of zeolite crystals. The membranes synthesized by both the two methods showed separation abilities for the xylene isomer after detemplating at low temperature in ozone atmosphere. The MFI zeolite membranes synthesized by variable synthesis temperature showed a PX/OX separation factor up to 76 and PX permeance of 1.02×10-8 mol·m-2·s-1·Pa-1.

Key words: MFI zeolite membrane, Varying-temperature synthesis, Defect, Xylene separation, Detemplation

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