Analysis of the boundary conditions for the simulation of the pressure equalization step in PSA cycles

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4452-4463

  Delgado, José A ^a   Rodrigues, A E ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Dynamic simulation; Mathematical modeling; Pressure equalization; Pressure swing adsorption; Separation

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FLUXES; KETONES; PEELING; SEPARATION;

A-CARBON; AXIAL DISPERSIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONING; CYCLIC STEADY STATES; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; MASS FLOWS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MOLAR FRACTION; PERFORMANCE RESULTS; PRESSURE EQUALIZATION; PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION; SILICALITE; SPATIAL PROFILES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 52049104431     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.06.016     Document Type: Article

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