Relay Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks for One-Step Helium Purification at Ambient Temperature.

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China.

Published: June 2024

One-step He purification from natural gas represents a crucial solution for addressing the global He shortages. The prevailing method to produce high-grade He involves cryogenic distillation and ultralow temperature adsorption processes, which is highly cost- and energy-intensive. Separating and purifying He at ambient temperature is a great challenge because the fundamental limitation lies in the boiling point, polarizability, and kinetic diameters of CH/N/He gases. In this study, we seek to implement a relay adsorption strategy using Ni(ina) and MIL-100(Cr) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to produce high-purity He from ternary mixtures (CH, N, and He) at ambient temperature. The CH/He selectivity in Ni(ina) and N/He selectivity in MIL-100(Cr) both reach record 15.39 and 128.49, respectively, making the relay adsorption for helium purification highly efficient. The breakthrough experiments show that the two MOFs can sequentially adsorb CH and N in ternary mixtures, producing He with a purity of up to 99.99% in one step. The remarkable separation performance and stability of these MOFs underscore the industrial potential in purifying He at ambient temperature.

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