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Scalability of Continuous Flow Production of Metal–Organic Frameworks
Author(s) -
RubioMartinez Marta,
Hadley Trevor D.,
Batten Michael P.,
ConstantiCarey Keri,
Barton Tim,
Marley Dylan,
Mönch Andreas,
Lim KokSeng,
Hill Matthew R.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201501684
Subject(s) - scalability , production (economics) , metal organic framework , process engineering , continuous flow , scale (ratio) , quality (philosophy) , continuous production , biochemical engineering , scale up , product (mathematics) , flow chemistry , computer science , materials science , environmental science , nanotechnology , chemistry , mathematics , organic chemistry , engineering , environmental engineering , database , physics , adsorption , quantum mechanics , classical mechanics , economics , macroeconomics , geometry
Achieving the large‐scale production of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is crucial for their utilization in applied settings. For many MOFs, quality suffers from large‐scale, batch reaction systems. We have developed continuous processes for their production which showed promise owing to their versatility and the high quality of the products. Here, we report the successful upscaling of this concept by more than two orders of magnitude to deliver unprecedented production rates and space‐time‐yields (STYs) while maintaining the product quality. Encouragingly, no change in the reaction parameters, obtained at small scale, was required. The production of aluminium fumarate was achieved at an STY of 97 159 kg m −3 day −1 and a rate of 5.6 kg h −1 .