Pressure swing adsorption cycles for improved solvent vapor enrichment

AIChE Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 540-551

  Liu, Yujun ^a   Ritter, James A ^a   Kaul, Bal K ^b  

^a The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GASOLINE; HEPTANE; NITROGEN; PRESSURE; SOLVENTS; VAPORS;

BED CAPACITY FACTOR; CARRIER GAS; COCURRENT BLOWDOWN STEP; CONTINUOUS BATCH REFLUX STEP; FOUR STEP SKARSTROM CYCLE; PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION CYCLE; SOLVENT VAPOR ENRICHMENT; SOLVENT VAPOR RECOVERY;

ADSORPTION;

BUTANE; GASOLINE; HEPTANE; NITROGEN; SOLVENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GAS ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; VAPOR;

EID: 0034018192     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690460313     Document Type: Article

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