Molecular Simulations of Adsorption and Diffusion in Crystalline Nanoporous Materials

Authors
Publication date 2021
Host editors
  • V. Gitis
  • G. Rothenberg
Book title Handbook of Porous Materials
Book subtitle Synthesis, Properties, Modeling and Key Applications
ISBN
  • 9789811223266
  • 9789811223228
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9789811223396
  • 9789811223235
  • 9789811223242
Series Materials and Energy
Chapter 4
Volume | Issue number 2
Pages (from-to) 199-319
Publisher Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS)
Abstract
The following sections are included:

Introduction

Benefits of computational experiments

Nanoporous materials

Pore system of a material

Structure models

The unit cell

Structure file formats

Where can you find zeolite and MOF structural information?

Periodic boundary conditions and the minimum-image convention

Force fields

Running a simulation

Units and conversions

Outline

Structural Properties

Energy landscapes

Characterization of the pore system of a material

Surface areas, pore volume and pore-size distributions

Molecular Mechanics (MM)

Monte Carlo (MC) and Adsorption

Basics

NVT ensemble

Adsorption: Gibbs and grand-canonical ensemble

Enthalpy of adsorption

Mixture adsorption simulations

Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory (IAST)

Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Diffusion

Newton’s equations of motion

Thermo- and barostats

Radial distribution functions

Dynamic correlation functions

Mean-squared displacement and single component diffusion

Activation energy

Free energy analysis and dc-TST

Selectivity

Breakthrough Simulation of Fixed-bed Separation Devices

Introduction

Modeling the fixed-bed

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Appendix: RASPA Input for Computing Adsorption and Diffusion Properties

Introduction

Force field files for CO2 and CH4 in zeolites

pseudo atoms.def atom definition file

CO2.def molecule file

methane.def molecule file

nitrogen.def molecule file

ITQ-29.cif framework definition file

force field mixing rules.def force field definition file

Blocked pocket definitions

Structural properties of ITQ-29

Surface area

Void-fraction

Pore-size distribution

Minimization of CO2 in ITQ-29

Gibbs single component adsorption of CO2 in ITQ-29 using CBMC

CO2 single component adsorption using CBMC

CH4 single component adsorption using CBMC

Mixture adsorption of CO2/CH4 in ITQ-29

Mixture adsorption of CO2/CH4 in ITQ-29 using CBMC

Dynamical properties of CO2 and CH4 in ITQ-29

MSD, VACF, and RDF of CH4 in ITQ-29 using MD

Free energy profiles of CH4 in ITQ-29 at 300 K and 4 molecules per cavity
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811223396_0004
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