Absolute molecular sieve separation of ethylene/ethane mixtures with silver zeolite A.

Sonia Aguado, Gérard Bergeret, Cecile Daniel, David Farrusseng

Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse et l'Environnement de Lyon, UMR 5256, CNRS, Lyon 1, 2 Av. A. Einstein, F-69626 Villeurbanne, France.

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012 Sep 12

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Absolute ethylene/ethane separation is achieved by ethane exclusion on silver-exchanged zeolite A adsorbent. This molecular sieving type separation is attributed to the pore size of the adsorbent, which falls between ethylene and ethane kinetic diameters.

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Sonia Aguado, Gérard Bergeret, Cecile Daniel, David Farrusseng. Absolute molecular sieve separation of ethylene/ethane mixtures with silver zeolite A. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2012 Sep 12;134(36):14635-7