Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Utilization for VOCs Adsorption

C W. Purnomo (Dept. of Chemical Engineering UGM, Jl Grafika No.2 Yogyakarta 55281, INDONESIA)
S. Z. Qiao (ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterial The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, AUSTRALIA)

ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering
Vol 7, No 1 & 2 (2007)

Functionalized FDU-12 has been studied in the application for hydrocarbon vapor adsorption. In here, the moieties were phenyl and vinyl which being introduced into FDU-12 synthesis using co-condensation methods with the presence of tri block co-polymer P123 as the template. The adsorption used two different vapors, benzene and n-hexane, at 200C. The result suggested that the groups increased the affinity of adsorbing the vapors compared with pure FDU-12.