Development of subnano-porous materials for hydrogen isotope separation by quantum molecular sieving

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25709074
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Properties in chemical engineering process/Transfer operation/Unit operation
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Tanaka Hideki 京都大学, 工学研究科, 講師 (80376368)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 水素同位体分離 / CVD / 量子分子篩 / 分子シミュレーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In silico synthesis of zeolite-carbon complexs (ZCCs) was performed by molecular dyanimics method, and two hundred ZCCs with different carbon content were obtained from thirty zeolites. A new rapid vacuum pressure swing adsorption process for hydrogen isotope separation was considered based on the data obtained from grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations and transition state theory calculations using the ZCC models at 77 K, and it was found that AFI-ZCC derived from the AFI zeolite was promising for the D2 separation.

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