氢同位素低温吸附分离的平衡吸附模型

1 INTRODUCTION Hydrogen isotope separation has been the com- mon concern for many years, for pure deuterium can be used as a fuel of the nuclear fusion reactor or as a tracer in medical cure, chemical reaction and geo- graphic research. Several methods such as chemical exchange, cryogenic distillation, laser, and thermal diffusion are applied for separating the hydrogen iso- topes, but these methods require great invest and en- ergy consumption. Therefore, other alternative meth- ods need …

Equilibrium Modeling for Hydrogen Isotope Separation by Cryogenic Adsorption

The separation of hydrogen and deuterium by cryogenic adsorption was conducted, using the molecular sieve 5A as adsorbent, helium as the carrier gas in a fixed column. The breakthrough curves of hydrogen, deuterium and the mixture of two components in helium carrier gas were measured, a separation factor, approximately 2, for the hydrogen-deuterium binary mixture was obtained. The equilibrium model was built for simulation of the concentration distribution for single hydrogen, deuterium and their mixture with helium carrier in the fixed column, and the simulation compared well with the experimental results.