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280 PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION EXTENSIONS OF THE PSA CONCEPT 281

PRODUCT
therefore be accounted for explicitly m any model. In general Darcy's Law 1s
'i used to relate the flow to the pressure drop through the bed;
I Kap
v= ---
&J.l az ' (7-5)
Both eouilibnum and kinetic models (LDF approx1mat1on) have been
I 7 .3.2 Expenmental Studies
p developed.
(a)

5
l Turnock and Kadlec studied the separation of a nitrogen-methane mixture
by RPSA over 5A zeolite. Representative purity-recovery data and equilibM
rium theory predictions from their study are shown m Figure 7.11. It 1s clear
l, that the mtrogen recovery was unacceptably low ( < 5% at 90% product
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CYCLING
(Consider bed as a sanes of vessels) FREQUENCY
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RATIO OF PRODUCT RATE TO FEED RATE
Figure 7.11 Purity of mtrogen product versus product-to-feed ratio for a RPSA
Figure 7.10 The rapid pressure swmg process showing _(a) pressure variation and process. (From Turnock and Kadlec,=:; with oermission.)
(b) the analogy with a ratchet. (From Kenney,' with perm1ss1on.)