Microporous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) or porous coordination polymers have received considerable attention in the past 15 years due to their potential applications in energy storage and gas separation. The adsorption capacities of these novel materials surpass the capacities of established materials such as activated carbon and zeolites. Recently, our group for the first time demonstrated the application of these novel materials for adsorption chiller applications. It is anticipated that such materials may even offer superior properties such as increased adsorption kinetics, uptake and selectivity at nanometer scale due to the sharp increase in the surface area, surface/core atoms and confinement effects. We will present our results on the shape selective synthesis of nanophase MOFs that reversibly uptake and release selected organic compounds to support an organic Rankine cycle for subcritical geothermal power production and waste heat recovery. The importance of various polymer stabilizers on the morphology of the nanophase MOFs will be discussed .

Synthesis and application of nanophase metal-organic frameworks for geothermal systems

244th National Meeting (2012)

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