| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 607242 | Journal of Colloid and Interface Science | 2014 | 6 Pages |
•Polymeric adsorbents with well-developed micro-mesopore were prepared.•High BJH surface area can enhance adsorption of medium–high concentration of VOCs.•Mesopores near to macropores make very limited contribution to VOCs adsorption.•Mesopore can effectively improve the desorption efficiency.
To enhance adsorption and desorption efficiency of volatile organic compounds from gas streams, we synthesized a series of well-developed micro-mesoporous hypercrosslinked polymeric adsorbents (MM-1, MM-2, and MM-3). The adsorption and desorption performance of dichloromethane and 2-butanone on newly synthesized adsorbents was investigated and compared with commercial micropore-dominated hypercrosslinked polymeric adsorbent (JT-001). The contributions of micropore and mesopore to adsorption and desorption of dichloromethane and 2-butanone on polymeric adsorbents were well elucidated. Consequently, the adsorbent MM-3 had been sorted out with high BET surface area (1606 m2/g), large micropore and mesopore volumes (0.562 mL/g and 1.046 mL/g, respectively). The MM-3 exhibited the similar adsorption capacities with JT-001 for dichloromethane and 2-butanone at regions of p/p0 < 0.2, but had higher adsorption capacities than JT-001 at high relative pressures. The largest adsorption capacities of MM-3 for dichloromethane and 2-butanone at 308 K were 1345.3 mg/g and 853.5 mg/g, respectively, which are about 1.78 and 1.88 times those of JT-001 under the same condition. Furthermore, the MM-3 exhibited higher desorption efficiencies than JT-001, especially for 2-butanone with a higher boiling point.
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