Notes Thermal conductivity of gas Abeq uation is developed for the thermal conductivity of gaseous mixtures which requires

only a knowledge of the pure component conductivities, heat capacity or iscosity, boiling points, and molecular weights. The equation reproduces 85 mixture conductivities from the li trrature with an average deviation of 1.9%. PSA CO2 In this work we studied the feasibility of concentration and capture of carbon dioxide from flue gases of electric power centrals by Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) units. Two different adsorbents, zeolite 13X and activated carbon, were used as selective adsorbents for carbon dioxide. We used a four-step cycle comprising pressurization, feed, counter-current blowdown and purge at temperature around 373 K, conditions of a typical co-generation exhaust stream. Following, scale-up and process economics (installation and operational costs and its impact in energy price) were evaluated. Anshul Thesis With expanding areas of applications, increasing needs for e_cient cycles, and growing demands for e_cient modeling, it has become essential to develop new systematic strategies for optimal design and operation of PSA systems. Although industrial usage of PSA is widespread, we observe a drought of any systematic methodology to design PSA cycles in PSA literature due to inherent complexity of cyclic PSA processes. We present a generic PSA superstructure to synthesize optimal PSA con_gurations. The superstructure is rich enough to predict a number of di_erent PSA operating steps, and their optimal sequence by solving an optimal control problem. PSA Gomes 2002 Carbon dioxide removal using pressure swing adsorption (PSA) processes were investigated both theoretically and experimentally. CO2 is the more strongly adsorbed compared to nitrogen in a flue gas with suitable molecular sieve adsorbents. Zeolite 13X was found to be suitable for CO2 sequestration on testing several adsorbents for sorption based separation. Numerical simulations indicate that the purity of nitrogen gas recovered can be increased from 30 to 90% with the help of PSA operation. The effects of feed flow rate, process cycle time, inert gas content and purge pressure were investigated. The optimal feed flow rate and cycle time were determined for the conditions employed in this work. The presence of inert gas was found to adversely affect the separation. The model predictions show good agreement with our laboratory experiments with promising separation performance.