Diffusion of a hydrocarbon mixture in a one-dimensional zeolite channel: an exclusion model approach

Details Diffusion of a hydrocarbon mixture in a one-dimensional zeolite channel: an exclusion model approach Diffusion of a hydrocarbon mixture in a one-dimensional zeolite channel: an exclusion model approach

2009-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/0901.2799v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Accepted for publication in the special issue "Diffusion in Micropores" of the journal Microporous and Mesoporous Materials

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Zeolite channels can be used as effective hydrocarbon traps. Earlier experiments (Czaplewski {\sl et al.}, 2002) show that the presence of large aromatic molecules (toluene) block the diffusion of light hydrocarbon molecules (propane) inside the narrow pore of a zeolite sample. As a result, the desorption temperature of propane is significantly higher in the binary mixture than in the single component case. In order to obtain further insight into these results, we use a simple lattice gas model of diffusion of hard-core particles to describe the diffusive transport of two species of molecules in a one-dimensional zeolite channel. Our dynamical Monte Carlo simulations show that taking into account an Arrhenius dependence of the single molecule diffusion coefficient on temperature, one can explain many significant features of the temperature programmed desorption profile observed in experiments. However, on a closer comparison of the experimental curve and our simulation data, we find that it is not possible to reproduce the higher propane current than toluene current near the desorption peak seen in experiment. We argue that this is caused by a violation of strict single-file behavior.

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