6 research outputs found
Novel Differential Column Method for Measuring Multicomponent Gas Adsorption Isotherms in NaY Zeolite
Separation
and purification of gas mixtures using selective adsorbents
is widely used in different industries such as gas drying, air separation,
and H<sub>2</sub> purification. Equilibrium analysis involving adsorption
of binary gas mixtures provides important information related to the
adsorbent performance in the separation of gases. In this study, a
novel technique termed “differential column technique”
was developed for binary isotherm measurement employing streams containing
carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and ethylene at different compositions.
This technique is based on measuring the gas desorption by changing
equilibrium pressure conditions. The isotherm curve was generated
by summing desorption amounts desorbed at each pressure step. Through
the application of this technique, the single-component isotherms
of CO<sub>2</sub>, CO, and ethylene on zeolite NaY were measured,
and the isotherms were compared to the results obtained by a standard
gravimetric technique. (The average relative deviation is less than
6%.) The main advantage of the technique is the significant time savings,
e.g., one experimental run is required to generate an isotherm compared
to multirun experiments using a standard breakthrough technique, in
addition to using a simpler experimental setup and generally smaller
amount of sample (agglomerated or in a powder form). Another important
feature of this technique is the relatively simple extension that
allows measurements of gas mixture equilibria. As such, the proposed
technique has the potential to be used as a fast screening technique
for adsorbent selection based on single-component or mixture analysis.
To investigate the consistency of the proposed technique, the binary
isotherms of competitive, CO<sub>2</sub>–C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>, and noncompetitive, CO<sub>2</sub>–CO, mixtures were
investigated at different gas compositions. In addition, the effects
of sorbate concentrations in the gas phase and interactions with the
NaY zeolite active surface were investigated in relation to the adsorption
selectivity and capacity, i.e., strong interaction of both CO<sub>2</sub> and ethylene with NaY site resulted in close adsorption selectivity
0.8 ≤ <i>S</i><sub>CO<sub>2</sub>/C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub></sub> ≤ 1.7, while CO<sub>2</sub> adsorbed more selectively
compared to CO, 14 ≤ <i>S</i><sub>CO<sub>2</sub>/CO</sub> ≤ 30, as a result of weak CO interaction with the adsorbent
sites. Finally, the binary adsorption isotherms and selectivity were
predicted by the multisite Langmuir model using the single component’s
isotherm parameters. Modest
agreements (error ≤ 28%) were obtained between the predicted
and experimental results
• • _"'Ill Diffusion and Immobilization Mechanisms in Zeolites Studied by ZLC Chromatography*
Abstract. Zero Length Column chromatography was used to study mass transfer in zeolites involving coupled diffusion and immobilization mechanisms, A modeling based on Volterra integral equation technique was utilized to simulate sorption and desorption kinetic curves and compare results of the simulations with experimentally obtained curves, This approach was applied to analyze sorption kinetics in the model system: toluene/silicalite-l (75UC-178'~C), The system generally shows a non-Fickian behavior and can be described by diffusion coupled with immobilization
An insight into clustering of halogenated anesthetics molecules in metal-organic frameworks: Evidence of adsorbate self-association in micropores
In order to better understand the adsorption of volatile halogenated anesthetics on metal organic frameworks (MOFs), sevoflurane vapor adsorption experiments were performed on commercial MOF-177 at different temperatures. Due to the surface homogeneity of such an adsorbent, arising from its almost unimodal pore size distribution and the absence of specific, coordinatively unsaturated adsorption active sites, sevoflurane adsorption isotherms exhibited a peculiar deviation from the Langmuirian behavior. Consequently, they show a "kink" at a specific pressure that increases with increasing equilibrium temperature. Successful modeling of such data by means of the Talu-Meunier equation confirmed clustering of adsorbate molecules inside adsorbent micropores, similarly to water vapor adsorption on activated carbon, which may play an important role when designing a system using MOFs as the potential adsorbents for capturing anesthetics
Adsorbent for halogenated anaesthetics
An adsorbent for halogenated anaesthetics includes: an inorganic material; and an organic material providing a framework for the inorganic material. The inorganic material may be chromium and the organic material may be terephthalic acid. The adsorbent may be formed or configured such that the adsorbent includes coordinatively unsaturated sites or such that the inorganic material may form octahedral structures. The adsorbent is formed or configured to be substantially regenerated at approximately room temperature and to provide selectivity for sevofluorane in water vapour of approximately 1.0. A method of producing an adsorbent includes: selecting an appropriate chemical containing an inorganic material; selecting an organic material to provide a framework for the inorganic material; dissolving the base chemical in water; mixing the organic material with the dissolved base chemical; heating the mixture; filtering the mixture to remove excess organic material; and drying the filtrate