Title
Enhancing CO-water mass transfer by functionalized MCM41 nanoparticles
Campus Units
Chemical and Biological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2008
Journal or Book Title
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
Volume
47
Issue
20
First Page
7881
Last Page
7887
DOI
10.1021/ie800238w
Abstract
Organic groups are grafted to ∼250-nm-diameter MCM41 nanoparticles with a spherical morphology to enhance the CO-water volumetric mass-transfer coefficient (kLa) for synthesis gas fermentation. The results indicate that (i) ∼250-nm MCM41 nanoparticles show a higher kLa value than large silica particles (1.4 and 7 μm), (ii) surface hydroxyl groups on MCM41 nanoparticles play an important role in mass-transfer enhancement, (iii) organic groups grafted to MCM41 modify the mass-transfer enhancement, and (iv) mercaptan groups grafted to MCM41 show the most mass-transfer enhancement of ∼1.9 times that of no nanoparticle addition. The CO-water mass-transfer enhancement depends on the interaction between the nanoparticles and the CO molecules, which is influenced by the hydrophobicity of the nanoparticles and the functional group on the nanoparticles.
Copyright Owner
American Chemical Society
Copyright Date
2008
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Zhu, Haiyang; Shanks, Brent H.; and Heindel, Theodore J., "Enhancing CO-water mass transfer by functionalized MCM41 nanoparticles" (2008). Chemical and Biological Engineering Publications. 230.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cbe_pubs/230
Comments
Reprinted (adapted) with permission from Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 47 (2008): 7881, doi: 10.1021/ie800238w. Copyright 2008 American Chemical Society.