Adsorption of liquid-phase alkane mixtures in silicalite: simulations and experiment

Langmuir. 2004 Jan 6;20(1):150-6. doi: 10.1021/la035362+.

Abstract

A combination of experimental and computational studies of adsorption from liquid-phase mixtures of linear alkanes in the zeolite silicalite is presented here. Configurational biased grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations combined with identity-swap moves are used to equilibrate the simulations in reasonable times. Interesting trends observed in experiments have been captured quantitatively by simulations. A siting analysis of the simulation data reveals that, during adsorption from a liquid mixture, shorter alkanes prefer the zigzag channels and longer alkanes concentrate in the straight channels of silicalite.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adsorption
  • Alkanes / chemistry*
  • Computer Simulation*
  • Models, Chemical*
  • Silicates / chemistry*
  • Surface Properties
  • Zeolites / chemistry*

Substances

  • Alkanes
  • Silicates
  • Zeolites