Oxygen and Nitrogen Separation from Air Using Zeolite Type 5A

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An adsorption (PSA) unit consist of two – tubes columns pressure swing, (6cm diameter and 70cm bed length) and a dryer part (12cm diameter and 27cm) filling with activated alumina (Al2O3) have been constructed to study the separation of oxygen and nitrogen from air using commercial 5A zeolite under the effect of adsorption pressure (1 to 6 bar), adsorption time (20s), product flow rate (1 liter/min) on the product oxygen purity. For the case of 2-column, 4-step operation, the results show that an optimum concentration product of oxygen was 76.9%purity,at the adsorption pressure 4bar, Temp 17.4oC.Nitrogen optimum production was78.8% purity, at 1 bar

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Volume 8, Issue 2
Spring 2015
Pages 147-158

  • Receive Date 01 June 2015
  • Revise Date 20 June 2015
  • Accept Date 25 June 2015