Pressure-Swing Adsorption Using Layered Adsorbent Beds with Different Adsorption Properties: I - Results of Process Simulation

Adsorption

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 337-347

  Lü, Yaping ^a   Doong, Shain Jer ^b   Bülow, Martin ^a  

^a BOC Gases   (United States)

^b GAS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Layered beds; Performance simulation; Positioning of adsorbents; Variation in capacity and selectivity; VSA PSA processes

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SPECIFIC HEAT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VOLUME FRACTION; ZEOLITES;

ADSORBENT BEDS; LAYERED BEDS;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 0344897244     PISSN: 09295607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026228015051     Document Type: Article

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