Oxygen Purge Effects on Nitrogen Desorption in Oxygen Production by Pressure Swing Adsorption Method.

Producing Nitrogen via Pressure Swing Adsorption

Nitrogen gas is a staple of the chemical industry. Because it is an inert gas, nitrogen is suitable for a wide range of applications covering various aspects of chemical manufacturing, processing, handling, and shipping. Due to its low reactivity, nitrogen is an excellent blanketing and purging gas that can be used to protect valuable products from harmful contaminants. It also enables the safe...

Oxygen Adsorption on Nitrogen Containing Carbon Surfaces

Introduction The reaction of O2 with carbonaceous surfaces has been widely studied due to its important application in industry. In general, O2 is first chemisorbed on an electron-rich site of the carbon basal plane of graphite and then, it dissociates into oxygen atoms. Oxygen will diffuse on the surface until finds a structural defect to form covalent bonds. If temperature is appropriated, CO...

Biogas Upgrading by Pressure Swing Adsorption

Application of Nanosize Zeolite Molecular Sieves for Medical Oxygen Concentration

The development of a portable oxygen concentrator is of prime significance for patients with respiratory problems. This paper presents a portable concentrator prototype design using the pressure/vacuum swing adsorption (PVSA) cycle with a deep evacuation step (-0.82 barg) instead of desorption with purge flow to simplify the oxygen production process. The output of the oxygen concentrator is a ...

Process intensification in duplex pressure swing adsorption

As an alternative to the pressure swing adsorption (PSA) based on the Skarstrom cycle or its variants, a novel two-bed PSA--called duplex PSA--has been proposed by Hirose and independently by Leavitt to get both products of high purities. Simulation and experimental studies on duplex PSA for CO2 capture indicate that CO2 can be enriched to 95 mol% of feed containing 20 mol% CO2 and 80 mol% N2. ...