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Abstract
Through solidstate ionic exchange technique, a series of Cu(I), Ag(I) cation modified zeolite β sorbents were prepared on the base of preparation of Na β zeolite with different Si/Al ratio. The samples were characterized by XRD, FTIR and N2 adsorptiondesorption technique. Although the crystallicity and BET surface area of the sorbents are affected by exchanged metal cation in the framework, the XRD results show that asmade samples were kept framework structure integrity. The BET surface areas of asmade Na β samples decrease as the Si/Al ratio increase, and BET surface areas of Cu(I β , Ag(I)β sorbents decrease comparing with the same Si/Al ratio Na βzeolite. FTIR spectra of the samples show that the peak of framework vibration moves to low wave number as Cu(I), Ag(I) were inserted. Then the thiophene adsorption properties of Cu(I) β , Ag(I) β , Na β were evaluated at ambient conditions. Static state experimental results show that Cu(I)β exhibits stronger adsorption for thiophene. As the Si/Al mol ratio of zeolite β is 25 about 95% thiophene was adsorbed by Cu(I) β and 87% by Ag(I) β . Through dynamic adsorption experiments, the breakthrough capacities of the Cu(I)β and Ag(I) β sorbents are 0.144mmol/g and 0.132mmol/g, respectively.
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