Metal–organic
frameworks (MOFs) found their well-deserved
position in the field of gas adsorption and separation because of
their unique properties. The separation of xenon from different gas
mixtures containing this valuable and essential noble gas is also
benefited from the exciting nature of MOFs. In this research, we chose
a series of isoreticular MOFs as our study models to apply advanced
molecular simulation techniques in the context of xenon separation
from air. We investigated the separation performance of our model
set through simulation of ternary gas adsorption isotherms and consequent
calculation of separation performance descriptors, finding out that
IRMOF-7 shows better recovering capabilities compared to the other
studied MOFs. We benefited from visualization of xenon energy
landscape within MOFs to obtain valuable information on possible reasoning
behind our observations. We also examined temperature-based separation
performance boosting strategy. Additionally, we noted that although
promising candidates are present among the studied MOFs for xenon
recovery from air, they are not suitable for xenon recovery from exhaled
anesthetic gas mixture.
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