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The characterization of adsorption properties of binary gas mixtures is an important factor in the design of cyclic periodic adsorption processes. Presently, there are a few methods for determining the binary adsorption behaviour. However, most of these methods are very time demanding (static approaches). One dynamic approach for determining the binary adsorption behaviour is by employing the concentration pulse method. Although this experimental method has been shown to reliably reproduce the data obtained with static approaches, the application has been limited to systems where the adsorption capacities are similar. In our previous work, a novel method (HT-CPM) was shown to be capable of handling systems where the adsorption capacity of the heavy component is much greater than the light component.
In order to further validate the novel method, HT-CPM, previously published statically determined binary adsorption data have been used to supply the data required for the concentration pulse method (CPM) data reduction techniques. From this data, the HT-CPM was then applied and the resulting data compared. The two other CPM approaches were also applied and these results are shown.
Four binary systems were chosen so that a range of heavy/light adsorption capacities was examined. The results show that the HT-CPM was able to produce results that were consistent with the static data taken from the literature. The other data reduction techniques used with the CPM could only produce meaningful data when the adsorption capacities of the heavy and light components were similar.
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Harlick, P., Tezel, F. Use of Concentration Pulse Chromatography for Determining Binary Isotherms: Comparison with Statically Determined Binary Isotherms . Adsorption 9, 275–286 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024758002626
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