Numerical analysis on the performance of the three-bed temperature swing adsorption process for air prepurification

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 885-898

  Zhang, Peikun ^a   Wang, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CLEAN GAS; IMPURITIES IN; IMPURITY CONTENT; MATHEMATIC MODEL; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NON-ADIABATIC; NONISOTHERMAL; PRE-PURIFICATION; PURGE GAS; TEMPERATURE SWING ADSORPTION; TEMPERATURE-SWING ADSORPTION PROCESS;

ADSORPTION; EFFLUENTS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; IMPURITIES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

AUXILIARY POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872724415     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie302166z     Document Type: Article

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