Modeling of sorbent-based gas filters: Development, verification and experimental validation

Building Simulation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-86

  Pei, Jingjing ^a   Zhang, Jianshun ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

adsorption; external convective mass transfer; modeling; sorbent bed; surface diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054123932     PISSN: 19963599     EISSN: 19968744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-010-0309-4     Document Type: Article

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