Comparison of the Behavior of Metal–Organic Frameworks and Zeolites for Hydrocarbon Separations

The objective of this work was to study the adsorption and separation of the most important families of hydrocarbon compounds on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), in comparison with zeolites. For this purpose, we have selected four probe molecules, each of them representing one of these families, i.e., o- and p-xylene as aromatics, 1-octene as an alkene, and n-octane as an alkane. The separation of these four molecules was studied by binary...