Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Utilization for VOCs Adsorption

C.W.  Purnomo; S. Z.  Qiao

C.W. Purnomo Department of Chemical Engineering, Gadjah Mada University
S. Z. Qiao ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterial, The University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA

Keywords: mesoporous silica, sol-gel, adsorption, VOCs, co-consideration, co-polymer

Abstract

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.

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