Adsorption effluents

Adsorption effluent treatment, 9 432 Adsorption equilibrium, 1 591—594 Adsorption forces, 1 583-584 gas adsorption, 1 619-621 Adsorption free energy, contributions to, 24 139... 

Alternatively, the saturated substrate may not be inert to new solution-borne protein molecules, but may exchange with such molecules (23). The result of such a process, which does indeed occur as will be shown later, does not appear to alter adsorption effluent profiles. 

Adsorption is of technical importance in processes such as the purification of materials, drying of gases, control of factory effluents, production of high vacua, etc. Adsorption phenomena are the basis of heterogeneous catalysis and colloidal and emulsification behaviour. 

The flow directions in a PSA process are fixed by the composition of the stream. The most common configuration is for adsorption to take place up-flow. AH gases with compositions rich in adsorbate are introduced into the adsorption inlet end, and so effluent streams from the inlet end are rich in adsorbate. Similarly, adsorbate-lean streams to be used for purging or repressurizing must flow into the product end. 

Fig. 18. (a) Time trace of adsorbate composition in an adsorber effluent during adsorption, (b) Adsorbate loading along the flow axis of an adsorber during... 

Rinse. When transfer of the required volume of regenerating solution to the column has been completed, a small amount of regenerating solution occupies space immediately above the resin bed, between resin particles in the bed, and within the resin particles. It must be displaced with water before the column can be returned to the adsorption step. Rinsing should begin at the same flow rate as used during regeneration and continue at that rate until a volume of water equal to 1—2 bed volumes has been used. After that, the flow rate is increased to the rate normally used during the adsorption step, and continued at that rate until the effluent is of satisfactory quaHty, as deterrnined by pH, conductivity, or resistivity. The water need not be at an elevated temperature unless the process stream is above ambient temperature. 

Separation of Norma/ and Isoparaffins. The recovery of normal paraffins from mixed refinery streams was one of the first commercial appHcations of molecular sieves. Using Type 5A molecular sieve, the / -paraffins can be adsorbed and the branched and cycHc hydrocarbons rejected. During the adsorption step, the effluent contains isoparaffins. During the desorption step, the / -paraffins are recovered. Isothermal operation is typical. 

Sulfonation Plant Operations and Gas Effluent. Standards governing U.S. sulfonation plant gas effluents differ depending on whether or not the plant is equipped with a H2SO4 scmbbing system for adsorption of SO gas (see Fig. 3). The installation of the SO adsorber system qualifies the plant as a sulfuric production plant which has stringent regulations. Limitations and typical effluent from the sulfonation system are as follows ... 

Design criteria for carbon adsorption include type and concentration of contaminant, hydrauhc loading, bed depth, and contact time. Typical ranges are 1.4—6.8 L/s/m for hydrauhc loading, 1.5—9.1 m for bed depth, and 10—50 minutes for contact time (1). The adsorption capacity for a particular compound or mixed waste stream can be deterrnined as an adsorption isotherm and pilot tested. The adsorption isotherm relates the observed effluent concentration to the amount of material adsorbed per mass of carbon. 

New areas in adsorption technology include carbonaceous and polymeric resins (3). Based on synthetic organic polymer materials, these resins may find special uses where compound selectivity is important, low effluent concentrations are required, carbon regeneration is impractical, or the waste to be treated contains high levels of inorganic dissolved soHds. 

Filtration. Filtration is usually a misnomer for tertiary processes that remove particulate matter. Small particles are removed by adsorption rather than by physical straining. If secondary effluents contain a high concentration of soHds, filter beds clog and binding occurs at the bed surface. 

In the physical separation process, a molecular sieve adsorbent is used as in the Union Carbide Olefins Siv process (88—90). Linear butenes are selectively adsorbed, and the isobutylene effluent is distilled to obtain a polymer-grade product. The adsorbent is a synthetic 2eohte, Type 5A in the calcium cation exchanged form (91). UOP also offers an adsorption process, the Sorbutene process (92). The UOP process utilizes ahquid B—B stream, and uses a proprietary rotary valve containing multiple ports, which direct the flow of Hquid to various sections of the adsorber (93,94). The cis- and trans-isomers are alkylated and used in the gasoline blending pool. 

Product Recovery. The aHyl chloride product is recovered through the use of several fractional distillation steps. Typically, the reactor effluent is cooled and conducted into an initial fractionator to separate the HCl and propylene from the chloropropenes, dichloropropanes, dichloropropenes, and heavier compounds. The unconverted propylene is recycled after removal of HCl, which can be accompHshed by adsorption in water or fractional distillation (33,37,38) depending on its intended use. The crude aHyl chloride mixture from the initial fractionator is then subjected to a lights and heavies distillation the lighter (than aHyl chloride) compounds such as 2-chloropropene, 1-chloropropene, and 2-chloropropane being the overhead product of the first column. AHyl chloride is then separated in the second purification column as an overhead product. Product purities can exceed 99.0% and commercial-grade aHyl chloride is typicaHy sold in the United States in purities about 99.5%. 

Personnel are protected in working with tritium primarily by containment of all active material. Containment devices such as process lines and storage media are normally placed in well-ventilated secondary enclosures (hoods or process rooms). The ventilating air is monitored and released through tall stacks environmental tritium is limited to safe levels by atmospheric dilution of the stack effluent. Tritium can be efficiently removed from air streams by catalytic oxidation followed by water adsorption on a microporous soHd absorbent (80) (see Absorption). 

Removal of color by adsorption using activated carbon is also employed. Activated carbon is very good at removing low levels of soluble chemicals, including dyes. Its main drawback is its limited capacity. Consequentiy, activated carbon is best for removing color from dilute effluent (see Carbon, ACTIVATED CARBON). 

Adsorption. Adsorption (qv) is an effective means of lowering the concentration of dissolved organics in effluent. Activated carbon is the most widely used and effective adsorbent for dyes (4) and, it has been extensively studied in the waste treatment of the different classes of dyes, ie, acid, direct, basic, reactive, disperse, etc (5—22). Commercial activated carbon can be prepared from lignite and bituminous coal, wood, pulp mill residue, coconut shell, and blood and have a surface area ranging from 500—1400 m /g (23). The feasibiUty of adsorption on carbon for the removal of dissolved organic pollutants has been demonstrated by adsorption isotherms (24) (see Carbon, activated carbon). Several pilot-plant and commercial-scale systems using activated carbon adsorption columns have been developed (25—27). 

A number of papers have appeared on the removal of heavy metals in the effluents of dyestuff and textile mill plants. The methods used were coagulation (320—324), polymeric adsorption (325), ultrafiltration (326,327), carbon adsorption (328,329), electrochemical (330), and incineration and landfiU (331). Of interest is the removal of these heavy metals, especiaUy copper by chelation using trimercaptotria2ine (332) and reactive dyed jute or sawdust (333). 

Additional stripping of the adsorbates from the adsorbent and purging of them from the voids can be accomplished by the addition or a purge step. The purge can begin toward the end of the depressurization or immediately afterward. Purging is accomphshed with a flow of produc t countercurrent to adsorption to provide a lower residual at the product effluent end of the bed. 

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