IEC 98 |
| James A. Ritter, Armin D. Ebner, James A. McIntyre, Steven P. Reynolds, and Karen D. Daniel. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 |
| We have been developing new pressure swing adsorption (PSA)cycles for gas separation and purification based on the dual and enriching reflux concepts. Conventional PSA cycles are based essentially on a stripping reflux concept and designed, for the most part, to produce a pure light component from a gas mixture. Recent results from my group have shown that a PSA cycle can also be designed to produce a pure heavy component from a gas mixture using enriching instead of stripping reflux. Moreover, theoretically we have shown that it is also possibile to produce two pure components from a binary gas mixture with 100% recovery of each component by combining the stripping and enriching reflux cycles into a single dual reflux cycle. The goal of this presentation is to discuss our most recent experimental and theoretical results on these novel PSA cycles. |
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ACS Award in Separations Science and Technology sponsored by IBC Advanced Technologies, Inc.
8:35 AM-11:55 AM, Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Convention Center -- Room 394, Oral
Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry |