Carbon dioxide-nitrogen separation through pressure swing adsorption

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 172, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 698-704

  Dantas, Tirzhá L P ^a,b   Luna, Francisco Murilo T ^b   Silva, Ivanildo J ^b   Torres, Antonio Eurico B ^b   de Azevedo, Diana C S ^b   Rodrigues, Alírio E ^c   Moreira, Regina F P M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Carbon dioxide; Nitrogen; PSA; Zeolite 13X

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION EQUILIBRIA; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CONTINUOUS SEPARATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIXED BED COLUMNS; MASS BALANCE; MODEL-BASED OPC; POST-COMBUSTION; PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION; PSA; TOTH ISOTHERM; ZEOLITE 13X;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FLUE GASES; GLOBAL WARMING; NITROGEN;

GAS ADSORPTION;

EID: 84860409690     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.06.037     Document Type: Article

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