Oxygen separation from air by four-bed pressure swing adsorption

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5439-5444

  Mofarahi, Masoud ^a   Towfighi, Jafar ^b   Fathi, Leila ^b  

^a PERSIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION PRESSURE; BLOW DOWN; CYCLE TIME; ISOTHERMAL MODELS; LINEAR DRIVING FORCE; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OXYGEN RECOVERY; OXYGEN SEPARATION; PRESSURE EQUALIZATION; PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; PRODUCT PURITY; PRODUCTION RATES; SIMULATION RESULT; ZEOLITE 5A;

OXYGEN; PRESSURIZATION; ZEOLITES;

GAS ADSORPTION;

EID: 67650079168     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801805k     Document Type: Article

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