Combined Adsorption and Reaction in the Ternary Mixture N2, N2O4, NO2on MIL-127 Examined by Computer Simulations

Abstract

A high selectivity of NOx over N2 (simulating air) is found in silico when studying the adsorption of the ternary mixture N2O4/NO2/N2 on the metal-organic framework MIL-127(Fe) by molecular simulations under consideration of the recombination reaction N2O4 ↔ 2NO2. The number of N atoms in nitrogen oxides NOx and that in N2 is used to define a selectivity of the combined adsorption and chemical recombination that can reach values of about 1000.