Highly selective CO2 removal for one-step liquefied natural gas processing by physisorbents

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Mar 12;55(22):3219-3222. doi: 10.1039/c9cc00626e.

Abstract

Industrial specifications require CO2 concentrations in natural gas below 50 ppm during liquefaction because of corrosion and CO2 freezing. Herein, we report a physisorbent (TIFSIX-3-Ni) that exhibits new benchmark CO2/CH4 selectivity and fast kinetics, thereby enabling one-step LNG processing to CO2 levels of 25 ppm.