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Sorption of carbon dioxide in a fixed bed of the molecular sieve Calsit 5. I. Verification of the model of equilibrium adiabatic sorption with the modified Langmuir equation

D. Bobok, E. Kossaczký, and V. Báleš

Department of Chemical Engineering, Slovak Technical University, 880 37 Bratislava

Abstract:  The model of equilibrium adiabatic sorption with the modified Langmuir equation is verified by the results of laboratory experiments involving adsorption of carbon dioxide in a bed of the molecular sieve Calsit 5 from the stream of indifferent gas and desorption of carbon dioxide by the stream of nitrogen. The confrontation of experimental course of sorption with the model idea has shown that the equilibrium adiabatic model in intermediate and turbulent flow regime may be used for prediction of the break point time in the stage of adsorption as well as the desorption time and the consumption of indifferent gas in the stage of desorption if kinetic data concerning the investigated system are lacking.

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Chemical Papers 34 (5) 589–601 (1980)