2013-06-03The purpose of the present work is to investigate the possibilityof recovering acetone, ethyl acetate and ethanol from a nitrogen stream, using a thermal pressure swing adsorption (TPSA) process with activated carbon as an adsorbent. A mathematical model, considering nonisothermal, nonadiabatic a..

2013-06-03Gas adsorption is an energetically attractive altermative to distillation for a number of industrical separations, but its effcuency can be impaired by degradation of the adsorbent due to coking or hydrothermal ageing.