Efficiency of Nitrogen Desorption from LiX Zeolite by Rapid Oxygen Purge in a Pancake Adsorber |
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| Authors: | Siew Wah Chai Mayuresh V Kothare Shivaji Sircar |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, , Bethlehem, PA, 18015 |
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| Abstract: | A nonequilibrium, nonisothermal, nonisobaric model was used for numerical simulation of the efficiency of N2 desorption from a LiX zeolite column by rapid purge with O2 in a pancake adsorber. The key parameters included desorption time, adsorbent particle size, and the adsorber length to diameter ratio. The efficiency was found to be a complex function of these variables. |
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| Keywords: | desorption of N2 rapid O2 purge medical O2 concentrator pancake adsorber LiX zeolite |
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