Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Volume 66, Issue 9, Pages 1825-1834Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.01.023
Keywords
Adsorption; Breakthrough; Packed bed; Roll-up; Chromatography; Thermal wave
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- Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC)
- Monash University
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Roll-up is a common phenomenon occurring in multicomponent adsorption processes when the concentrations of some components at the out let of the adsorber exceed their inlet levels. Previous investigations attributed the roll-up effect typically to the displacement of one component by another because of the difference in adsorption affinities or diffusivities. In this work, were port the existence of a peculiar type of roll-up caused by thermal effect solely in our multicomponent non-isothermal breakthrough experiments where the light component CO2 was swept off by a pure thermal wave developed from water vapour adsorption. Even though, the formation of a pure thermal wave is well known, it does not lead to the above roll-up without a multilayered bed packing. To our surprise, a secondary roll-up of CO2 caused by H2O displacement was also observed, since the front of the water concentration wave ran behind its thermal wave in our case. The parameters affecting the formation of this special dual mode roll-up were investigated and summarised. This work will give guidance to the design of multilayered cyclic adsorption processes, e. g. determination of layering ratios and duration of the feed step. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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