Cyclic adsorption separation processes: analysis strategy and optimization procedure

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2003

Authors

P. Cruz (Author) Other; J. C. Santos (Author) Other; Fernão Domingos Magalhães (Author) FEUP; Adélio Mendes (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Chemical Engineering Science

Vol. 58 No. 14

Pages: 3143-3158

ISSN: 0009-2509

Publisher: Elsevier

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Chemical engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Technology > Chemical technology

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-G1D

DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2509(03)00189-1

Abstract (EN): An innovative analysis strategy and an optimization procedure have been developed with the purpose of design, evaluation and optimization of small- and large-scale units of cyclic adsorption processes using the classical Skarstrom's cycle: pressure swing adsorption (PSA) and vacuum swing adsorption (VSA). The system of partial differential equations of the dynamic simulator model was solved using a recent numerical technique developed within our group, based on an adaptive multiresolution approach, thus ensuring stability and accuracy. The simulator provides models for the multiple phenomena involved in fixed-bed adsorption: pressure drop, mass transfer resistance and energy balance. An extended parametric analysis is presented for the particular case of oxygen production from air by PSA and VSA:influence of the normalized purge flow rate, the high and low pressure values, dimensionless pressurization time, dimensionless production time, pressure drop and temperature in the bed.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 16