Backfill Cycle of a Layered Bed H2 PSA Process |
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Authors: | Hyungwoong Ahn Chang-Ha Lee Bongkook Seo Jaeyoung Yang Kihwang Baek |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Chemical Engineering, Yonsei University, Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 120-749, Korea;(2) R&D Tech. Center, Sunkyong Engineering & Construction, Seoul, 110-300, Korea |
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Abstract: | The backfill cycle of two-bed PSA process using activated carbon beds, zeolite 5A beds, and layered beds was studied experimentally and theoretically to recover high purity H2 from coke oven gas. In a layered bed PSA, a comparison was made between two PSA processes with/without a backfill step before the feed pressurization step. Since the backfill step made the adsorption bed rich in H2 and this led to a rather steep concentration wave front at the feed pressurization step, incorporating a backfill step resulted in an increase in product purity with a decrease in recovery. Each step of the single-adsorbent and layered bed PSA processes with a backfill step was simulated with a dynamic model incorporating mass, energy, and momentum balances. The model agreed well with the experimental results in predicting the product H2 purity and recovery, thus giving a basic understanding of the bed dynamics of a backfill cycle. While the concentration and temperature profiles of a layered bed in each step showed characteristic behavior of each adsorbent in each layer, the product purity of a layered bed was not between the limits of two single-adsorbent bed processes. The concentration profiles predicted by simulation showed that CO and N2 played an important role in obtaining high H2 purity. |
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Keywords: | backfill step single-adsorbent bed layered bed coke oven gas H2 PSA |
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