Dual mode roll-up effect in multicomponent non-isothermal adsorption processes with multilayered bed packing

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1825-1834

  Li, Gang ^a   Xiao, Penny ^a   Xu, Dong ^a,b   Webley, Paul A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Breakthrough; Chromatography; Packed bed; Roll up; Thermal wave

Indexed keywords

ADSORBERS; ADSORPTION AFFINITY; BREAKTHROUGH; BREAKTHROUGH EXPERIMENT; CYCLIC ADSORPTION PROCESS; DIFFUSIVITIES; DUAL MODES; MULTI-LAYERED; MULTICOMPONENT ADSORPTION; MULTICOMPONENTS; NONISOTHERMAL; ROLL-UP; THERMAL WAVE; WATER CONCENTRATIONS; WATER VAPOUR;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; PACKED BEDS;

GAS ADSORPTION;

EID: 79952455694     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.01.023     Document Type: Article

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