Adsorptive industrial

Adams, R.E., W.E. Browning, Jr., and R.D. Ackley, Containment of Radioactive Fission Gases by Dynamic Adsorption, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 51 1467-1470 (1959). 

Sorbate or adsorbate is a term that has been used in the adsorption industry since its inception. A sorbate is simply a molecular species that has been adsorbed or can be adsorbed. 

Kikkinides, E.S. Yang, R.T. Cho, S.H. (1993). Concentration and recovery of carbon dioxide from flue gas by pressure swing adsorption. Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, 32 (11), 2714-2720. 

Takahashi, A., Yang, F.H., and Yang, R.T. New sorbents for desulfurization by pi-complex-ation Thiophene/benzene adsorption. Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, 2002, 41, 2487. 

Ion exchange separation is carried out using the following three procedures column chromatography, a batch method and an expanded bed adsorption. Industrial- scale preparation is used. 

Considering the longevity of alumina usage in the catalysis and adsorption industries, it is surprising to note how many misconceptions still exist concerning its physical-chemical properties. Because the surface structure of an adsorbent essentially determines its adsorptive characteristics, an understanding of the surface chemistry of aluminum oxides is necessary to comprehend selective adsorption properties. 

Catalytic gas-phase reactions play an important role in many bulk chemical processes, such as in the production of methanol, ammonia, sulfuric acid, and nitric acid. In most processes, the effective area of the catalyst is critically important. Since these reactions take place at surfaces through processes of adsorption and desorption, any alteration of surface area naturally causes a change in the rate of reaction. Industrial catalysts are usually supported on porous materials, since this results in a much larger active area per unit of reactor volume. 

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These effects can be illustrated more quantitatively. The drop in the magnitude of the potential of mica with increasing salt is illustrated in Fig. V-7 here yp is reduced in the immobile layer by ion adsorption and specific ion effects are evident. In Fig. V-8, the pH is potential determining and alters the electrophoretic mobility. Carbon blacks are industrially important materials having various acid-base surface impurities depending on their source and heat treatment. 

The second edition, like the first, is addressed to those workers in academic laboratories or industrial laboratories who are not necessarily specialists in the field of gas adsorption, but whose work is concerned either directly or indirectly with the characterization of finely divided or porous solids. 

The Aromax process was developed in the early 1970s by Toray Industries, Inc. in Japan (95—98). The adsorption column consists of a horizontal series of independent chambers containing fixed beds of adsorbent. Instead of a rotary valve, a sequence of specially designed on—off valves under computer control is used to move inlet and withdrawal ports around the bed. Adsorption is carried out in the Hquid phase at 140°C, 785—980 kPA, and 5—13 L/h. PX yields per pass is reported to exceed 90% with a typical purity of 99.5%. The first Aromax unit was installed at Toray s Kawasaki plant in March 1973. In 1994, IFP introduced the Eluxyl adsorption process (59,99). The proprietary adsorbent used is designated SPX 3000. Individual on-off valves controlled by a microprocessor are used. Raman spectroscopy to used to measure concentration profiles in the column. A 10,000 t/yr demonstration plant was started and successfully operated at Chevron s Pascagoula plant from 1995—96. IFP has Hcensed two hybrid units. 

Asahi Chemical Industry Company Ltd. was working to develop an adsorption process in the late 1970s and early 1980s that was to produce high purity EB as well as PX (100—103). In 1981 they reported that pilot plants results were being confirmed in larger equipment. However, this process does not appear to have been commercialized. 

The commercialization by Kureha Chemical Co. of Japan of a new, highly attrition-resistant, activated-carbon adsorbent as Beaded Activated Carbon (BAC) allowed development of a process employing fluidized-bed adsorption and moving-bed desorption for removal of volatile organic carbon compounds from air. The process has been marketed as GASTAK in Japan and as PURASIV HR (91) in the United States, and is now marketed as SOLD ACS by Daikin Industries, Ltd. 

Nearly every chemical manufacturiag operation requites the use of separation processes to recover and purify the desired product. In most circumstances, the efficiency of the separation process has a significant impact on both the quality and the cost of the product (1). Liquid-phase adsorption has long been used for the removal of contaminants present at low concentrations in process streams. In most cases, the objective is to remove a specific feed component alternatively, the contaminants are not well defined, and the objective is the improvement of feed quality defined by color, taste, odor, and storage stability (2-5) (see Wastes, industrial Water, industrial watertreati nt). 

Industrial-scale adsorption processes can be classified as batch or continuous (53,54). In a batch process, the adsorbent bed is saturated and regenerated in a cychc operation. In a continuous process, a countercurrent staged contact between the adsorbent and the feed and desorbent is estabhshed by either a tme or a simulated recirculation of the adsorbent. 

Final purification of argon is readily accompHshed by several methods. Purification by passage over heated active metals or by selective adsorption (76) is practiced. More commonly argon is purified by the addition of a small excess of hydrogen, catalytic combustion to water, and finally redistiHation to remove both the excess hydrogen and any traces of nitrogen (see Fig. 5) (see Exhaust control, industrial). With careful control, argon purities exceed 99.999%. 

It is not always necessary for the resin to be in the hydrogen form for adsorption of cations, especiaHy if a change in the pH of the Hquid phase is to be avoided (see also Hydrogen-ION activity). Eor example, softening of water, both in homes and at industrial sites, is practiced by using the resin in the form. 

J. W. Novak, Jr., R. R. Burr, andR. Bednarik, "Mechanisms of Metal Ion Adsorption of Activated Alumina," Vol. 35, Proc. Int. Symp. on Metals Speciation, Separation, and Recorey, Chicago, lU., July 27—Aug. 1, 1986, Industrial Waste Elimination Research Center of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, lU. 

Water and Waste Water Treatment. PAG products are used in water treatment for removal of suspended soHds (turbidity) and other contaminants such as natural organic matter from surface waters. Microorganisms and colloidal particles of silt and clay are stabilized by surface electrostatic charges preventing the particles from coalescing. Historically, alum (aluminum sulfate hydrate) was used to neutralize these charges by surface adsorption of Al cations formed upon hydrolysis of the alum. Since 1983 PAG has been sold as an alum replacement in the treatment of natural water for U.S. municipal and industrial use. 

Effect on Oxide—Water Interfaces. The adsorption (qv) of ions at clay mineral and rock surfaces is an important step in natural and industrial processes. SiUcates are adsorbed on oxides to a far greater extent than would be predicted from their concentrations (66). This adsorption maximum at a given pH value is independent of ionic strength, and maximum adsorption occurs at a pH value near the piC of orthosiUcate. The pH values of maximum adsorption of weak acid anions and the piC values of their conjugate acids are correlated. This indicates that the presence of both the acid and its conjugate base is required for adsorption. The adsorption of sihcate species is far greater at lower pH than simple acid—base equihbria would predict. 

Several properties of the filler are important to the compounder (279). Properties that are frequentiy reported by fumed sihca manufacturers include the acidity of the filler, nitrogen adsorption, oil absorption, and particle size distribution (280,281). The adsorption techniques provide a measure of the surface area of the filler, whereas oil absorption is an indication of the stmcture of the filler (282). Measurement of the sdanol concentration is critical, and some techniques that are commonly used in the industry to estimate this parameter are the methyl red absorption and methanol wettabihty (273,274,277) tests. Other techniques include various spectroscopies, such as diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy (drift), inverse gas chromatography (igc), photoacoustic ir, nmr, Raman, and surface forces apparatus (277,283—290). 

Work in the area of simultaneous heat and mass transfer has centered on the solution of equations such as 1—18 for cases where the stmcture and properties of a soHd phase must also be considered, as in drying (qv) or adsorption (qv), or where a chemical reaction takes place. Drying simulation (45—47) and drying of foods (48,49) have been particularly active subjects. In the adsorption area the separation of multicomponent fluid mixtures is influenced by comparative rates of diffusion and by interface temperatures (50,51). In the area of reactor studies there has been much interest in monolithic and honeycomb catalytic reactions (52,53) (see Exhaust control, industrial). Eor these kinds of appHcations psychrometric charts for systems other than air—water would be useful. The constmction of such has been considered (54). 

Table 15. Granular Activated Carbon (GAG) Adsorption Effectively Removes Organics From a Variety of Industrial Wastewaters...

Volatile organic contaminants occur primarily in groundwaters as a result of the disposal of industrial solvents on the ground or in soakage pits. The removal of these compounds has best been accompHshed by the use of air stripping or adsorption on activated carbon. 

The main characteristic properties of asbestos fibers that can be exploited in industrial appHcations (8) are their thermal, electrical, and sound insulation nonflammabiUty matrix reinforcement (cement, plastic, and resins) adsorption capacity (filtration, Hquid sterilization) wear and friction properties (friction materials) and chemical inertia (except in acids). These properties have led to several main classes of industrial products or appHcations... 

Process Stream Separations. Differences in adsorptivity between gases provides a means for separating components in industrial process gas streams. Activated carbon in fixed beds has been used to separate aromatic compounds from lighter vapors in petroleum refining process streams (105) and to recover gasoline components from natural and manufactured gas (106,107). 

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