Operation of an industrial SMB unit for p-xylene separation accounting for adsorbent ageing problems

Separation Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1974-2002

  Gomes, Pedro Sá ^a   Minceva, Mirjana ^a   Rodrigues, Alírio E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adsorbent; Ageing; Deactivation; Modelling; p xylene; Separation; Simulated moving bed; Simulation; True moving bed

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); FLOW OF GASES; ISOMERS; SEPARATION; STANDARDS; XYLENE;

ADSORBENT; ADSORBENT CAPACITY; ADSORPTION/DESORPTION; AGEING; AGEING PROBLEMS; DEACTIVATION; FLOW-RATE; FLUID VELOCITIES; INDUSTRIAL SEPARATION; INTEGER NUMBERS; MODE OF OPERATIONS; MODELLING; MODES OF OPERATIONS; P-XYLENE; SIMULATED MOVING BED; SIMULATED MOVING BEDS; SIMULATION; SWITCHING TIME; TRUE MOVING BED;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

ADSORPTION; DESORPTION; FLOW RATE; SEPARATION;

EID: 46049093242     PISSN: 01496395     EISSN: 15205754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01496390802064125     Document Type: Article

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