Dynamic study of the pressure swing adsorption process for biogas upgrading and its responses to feed disturbances

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5445-5454

  Santos, Mónica P S ^a   Grande, Carlos A ^b   Rodrigues, Alírio E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CONTROL STRATEGY; ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEMS; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; INDUSTRIAL SEPARATION; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION; SELECTIVE ADSORBENTS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

ADSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BIOGAS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW RATE; SEPARATION; THERMOCOUPLES;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84876480425     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie303606v     Document Type: Article

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