Abstract
The water crisis is one of the main global risks based on its societal impact, particularly the access to safe drinking water in regions with a dry (arid) or mainly dry (semi-arid) climate. Several techniques are being developed, namely the use of regenerative desiccant (e.g., MOFs) to water capture through adsorption processes. MIL-160(Al) belongs to the fumarate-based MOFs family, and it is one of the most promising MOFs for water harvesting and heat transformation applications. In this study, the potential of MIL-160(Al) as an adsorbent for water sorption based applications was evaluated. For this purpose, adsorption equilibrium isotherms, dynamic adsorption experiments, and MIL-160(Al) granules characterization were performed. H2O vapor adsorption equilibrium isotherm was studied at 303, 323, and 343 K presenting a type V shape and was fitted using the Cooperative Multimolecular Sorption model and Polanyi’s theory model. Additionally, CO2, N2, and O2 adsorption equilibrium isotherms were also measured but at 283, 303, and 323 K, presenting the following order of adsorption affinity: CO2 > O2 > N2. Water vapor adsorption breakthrough experiments corroborate the shape of the water adsorption equilibrium isotherms on MIL-160(Al). Water co-adsorption history proved that the presence of the other air components (CO2, O2, and N2) does not affect water adsorption behavior on MIL-160(Al). DRIFTS measurements proved the MIL-160(Al) structure remains stable during the water vapor exposure. The optimization of the TSA process allowed us to achieve maximum H2O productivity of 305 L·day−1·ton−1 for a regeneration temperature of 353 K and flow rate equal to 0.50 m3·s−1.
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Abbreviations
- ATR:
-
Attenuated total reflection
- AWGs:
-
Atmospheric water generators
- CMMS:
-
Cooperative multimolecular sorption
- CO2 :
-
Carbon dioxide
- DRIFT:
-
Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform
- DRIFTS:
-
Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform spectroscopy
- ET:
-
Expansion tank
- FTIR:
-
Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy
- GA:
-
Gas analyser
- H2O:
-
Water
- He:
-
Helium
- Hg:
-
Mercury
- IUPAC:
-
International union of pure and applied chemistry
- KRICT:
-
Korea research institute of chemical technology
- LabVIEW:
-
Laboratory virtual instrument engineering workbench
- LC:
-
Liquid container
- LDF:
-
Linear driving force
- MOFs:
-
Metal–organic frameworks
- N2 :
-
Nitrogen
- O2 :
-
Oxygen
- PCPs:
-
Porous coordination polymers
- RH:
-
Relative humidity
- SEM:
-
Scanning electron microscopy
- SH:
-
Sample holder
- Std:
-
Standard deviation
- tfeed :
-
Adsorption time cycle
- TG:
-
Thermogravimetric
- Tpurge :
-
Purge temperature
- tpurge :
-
Desorption time cycle
- TSA:
-
Temperature swing adsorption
- XRD:
-
X-ray diffraction
- ZIFs:
-
Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks
- ε :
-
Adsorption potential
- − ΔH :
-
Heat of adsorption
- ∆m :
-
Mass difference between the mass recorded by the balanced and the initial mass of the basket containing the activated sample and the glass wool
- ρG :
-
Density of the adsorbate gas at the measuring conditions (T, P)
- ρads :
-
Density of the adsorbed phase
- A :
-
Integration constant
- J :
-
Objective function
- k :
-
Number of iterations
- K :
-
Adsorption equilibrium constant
- K 0 , K I , K L :
-
Equilibrium constant in Langmuir-Ising isotherm
- K ∞ :
-
Constant containing the entropy term at infinite temperature
- m s :
-
Adsorbent mass
- M W :
-
Adsorbate molecular weight
- P :
-
Pressure
- P o :
-
Saturation vapor pressure
- Pr :
-
Productivity
- Q :
-
Flow rate
- q :
-
Adsorbed amount of the component on the adsorbent
- q m :
-
Saturation adsorption capacity
- q sat,I :
-
Specific saturation adsorption capacity in Ising isotherm
- q sat,L :
-
Specific saturation adsorption capacity in Langmuir isotherm
- n k :
-
Total number of instants of evaluation of the performance parameters
- R :
-
Ideal gas constant (8.314 J·mol−1·K−1)
- T :
-
Absolute temperature of system
- V c :
-
Volume of inert parts (permanent magnet, basket, metal hook, and glass wool)
- V S :
-
Adsorbent volume
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Shivaji Sircar was a great contributor for Adsorption Science and Technology and was linked in many ways to our research group (LSRE) on “Cyclic adsorption/reaction processes”. Shivaji lectured in Portugal in the NATO ASI Adsorption Science and Technology in 1988, where his former Ph.D. advisor Alan Myers also lectured. In 1991, one of us visited Shivaji at Air Products when walking the first steps into PSA processes, and will always remember the fruitful conversations at FOA meetings (starting 1983 in Germany), AIChE meetings, and Iberian Adsorption Meeting in Madrid (2008). We will always remember Shivaji’s contributions to our research area and also his human kindness. Therefore, the authors acknowledge the contribution of Prof. Shivaji Sircar to this work. This work was a result of project “AIProcMat@N2020—Advanced Industrial Processes and Materials for a Sustainable Northern Region of Portugal 2020”, with the reference NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000006, supported by Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the Portugal 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF); Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM—UID/EQU/50020/2020—funded by national funds through FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC). C.G.S. acknowledges the FCT Investigator Programme (IF/00514/2014) with financing from the European Social Fund and the Human Potential Operational Programme. The Korean authors are grateful to the Global Frontier Center for Hybrid Interface Materials of Korea (GFHIM) (Grant No. NRF-2013M3A6B1078879) for financial support. The authors acknowledge Prof. Christian Serre for his contribution in the synthesis and shaping of MIL-160(Al).
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Silva, M.P., Ribeiro, A.M., Silva, C.G. et al. MIL-160(Al) MOF’s potential in adsorptive water harvesting. Adsorption 27, 213–226 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10450-020-00286-5
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