Wei Shiqian, Tian Xinyu, Rao Zhen, Wang Chunxia, Tang Rui, He Ying, Luo Yu, Fan Qiang, Fan Weifeng, Hu Yu
School of New Energy Materials and Chemistry, Leshan Normal University, Leshan 614000, China.
Leshan West Silicon Materials Photovoltaic and New Energy Industry Technology Research Institute, Leshan 614000, China.
Materials (Basel). 2025 Jun 19;18(12):2907. doi: 10.3390/ma18122907.
Carbon dioxide (CO) and hydrogen sulfide (HS) as harmful gases are always associated with methane (CH) in natural gas, biogas, and landfill gas. Given that chemisorption and physisorption are the key gas separation technologies in industry, selecting appropriate adsorbents is crucial to eliminate these harmful gases. The adsorption of CH, CO, and HS has been studied based on the density functional theory (DFT) in this work to evaluate the feasibility of transition metal (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mo) porphyrin-like moieties embedded in graphene sheets (MN-GPs) as adsorbents. It was found that the interactions between gas molecules and MN-GPs (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mo) are different. The weaker interactions between CH and MN-GPs (M = Co, Ni, Cu, Mo) than those between CO and MN-GPs or between HS and MN-GPs are beneficial to the separation of CH from CO and HS. The maximum difference in the interactions between gas molecules and MoN-GPs means that MoN-GPs have the greatest potential to become adsorbents. The different interfacial interactions are related to the amount of charge transfer, which could promote the formation of bonds between gas molecules and MN-GPs to effectively enhance the interfacial interactions.
二氧化碳(CO)和硫化氢(HS)作为有害气体,在天然气、沼气和垃圾填埋气中总是与甲烷(CH₄)相伴。鉴于化学吸附和物理吸附是工业中关键的气体分离技术,选择合适的吸附剂对于去除这些有害气体至关重要。在这项工作中,基于密度泛函理论(DFT)研究了CH₄、CO和HS的吸附情况,以评估嵌入石墨烯片(MN-GPs)中的过渡金属(M = Mn、Fe、Co、Ni、Cu、Mo)类卟啉部分作为吸附剂的可行性。结果发现,气体分子与MN-GPs(M = Mn、Fe、Co、Ni、Cu、Mo)之间的相互作用各不相同。CH₄与MN-GPs(M = Co、Ni、Cu、Mo)之间比CO与MN-GPs或HS与MN-GPs之间的相互作用更弱,这有利于CH₄与CO和HS的分离。气体分子与MoN-GPs之间相互作用的最大差异意味着MoN-GPs成为吸附剂的潜力最大。不同的界面相互作用与电荷转移量有关,电荷转移可促进气体分子与MN-GPs之间形成键,从而有效增强界面相互作用。