Particle-bed model for multicomponent adsorption-based separations: Application to pressure swing adsorption

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5647-5666

  Serbezov, Atanas ^a   Sotirchos, Stratis V ^a,b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distributed parameter model; Dusty gas model; Generalized linear driving force approximation; Heat transport; Multicomponent mass transport; Pressure swing adsorption

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); ZEOLITES;

ADSORPTIVE SEPARATION; PARTICLE BEDS; PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION;

SEPARATION;

ADSORPTION; GAS SEPARATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

EID: 0032716649     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00126-8     Document Type: Article

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