Adsorption/desorption of water and ethanol on 3A zeolite in near-adiabatic fixed bed

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 9247-9260

  Simo, Marian ^a   Sivashanmugam, Siddharth ^a   Brown, Christopher J ^a   Hlavacek, Vladimir ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADSORBATE CONCENTRATION; ADSORBERS; ADSORPTION BED; ADSORPTION RATES; ADSORPTION/ DESORPTION; AXIAL VELOCITY; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; COLUMN PRESSURE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; EQUILIBRIUM STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIXED BED; FUEL ETHANOL; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; LINEAR DRIVING FORCE; MACRO PORES; MASS TRANSFER MECHANISM; MASS TRANSFER RESISTANCES; MICROPORE DIFFUSION; PELLET SIZE; PILOT SCALE; PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION;

ADSORPTION; DESORPTION; ETHANOL; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PELLETIZING; ZEOLITES;

DEWATERING;

EID: 70350318934     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900446v     Document Type: Article

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