Scalability of Continuous Flow Production of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Scalability of Continuous Flow Production of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Achieving the large‐scale production of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is crucial for their utilization in applied settings. For many MOFs, quality suffers from large‐scale, batch reaction systems. We have developed continuous processes for their production which showed promise owing to their versa...

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Published in:ChemSusChem Vol. 9; no. 9; pp. 938 - 941
Main Authors: Rubio-Martinez, Marta, Hadley, Trevor D., Batten, Michael P., Constanti-Carey, Keri, Barton, Tim, Marley, Dylan, Mönch, Andreas, Lim, Kok-Seng, Hill, Matthew R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Germany Blackwell Publishing Ltd 10-05-2016
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Subjects:
Aluminum
Aluminum - chemistry
aluminum fumarate
Continuous flow
flow chemistry
Fumarates - chemical synthesis
Fumarates - chemistry
Metal-organic frameworks
Organometallic Compounds - chemical synthesis
Organometallic Compounds - chemistry
Quality
rheology
Small scale
Synthesis
synthetic methods
Utilization
Versatility
rheology
aluminum fumarate
synthetic methods
flow chemistry
metal-organic frameworks
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Summary:Achieving the large‐scale production of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is crucial for their utilization in applied settings. For many MOFs, quality suffers from large‐scale, batch reaction systems. We have developed continuous processes for their production which showed promise owing to their versatility and the high quality of the products. Here, we report the successful upscaling of this concept by more than two orders of magnitude to deliver unprecedented production rates and space‐time‐yields (STYs) while maintaining the product quality. Encouragingly, no change in the reaction parameters, obtained at small scale, was required. The production of aluminium fumarate was achieved at an STY of 97 159 kg m−3 day−1 and a rate of 5.6 kg h−1. Lab of plenty: The production of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) on a large scale is crucial for their eventual application in industry. A continuous‐flow processes for MOF production is successfully scaled up, without any reoptimization of the synthesis, by more than two orders of magnitude to deliver unprecedented production rates (5.6 kg h−1) and space–time yields (97 159 kg m−3 day−1).
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ISSN:1864-5631
1864-564X
DOI:10.1002/cssc.201501684