Unless you plan o

Two adsorption columns are used alternately to allow constant output during regeneration using 12 hours as
regeneration cycl
proper control an
Number of hours per batch 12 hours

Molecular Weights
Water 0.018015 kg/mol Go to:
Ethanol 0.04607 kg/mol http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/fl
Isopropanol 0.0601 kg/mol and you will find that the spec

Standard Volume at 100oC, 1atm What is "standard

There are the con
Water 1.6738 m3/kg From http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/fluid/
is WATER mention
*The standard volumes for ethanol and isopropanol were not calculated as they were minor components.fed?
Ideal gas laws ar

Feed components
Water 108472 mol/hr
Ethanol 7095 mol/hr
Isopropanol 5.5 mol/hr Do you think 5 decimal points here really
make a big difference in the final
solution?
Volume of feed batch (gas)
Water 39249.73454 m3
Ethanol 2607.460071 m3
Isopropanol 2.021286877 m3
Total feed volume, Q 41859.21589 m3 What are the SOLIDS invol
though you were loading
and ethanol on solid adsor
Feed concentration, cF 0.09379933 kg/m3

Solid loading, qF 0.2 Solid loading on a typical alumino-silicate 3A molecu

Density, pb 700 kg/m3 Density of a typical alumino-silicate 3A molecular
Wheresiea
*Above 2 values sourced from: bed area
relevent
http://www.tower-packing.com/molecular%20sieve
http://sorbeadindia.tradeindia.com/Exporters_Supp

Bed Area, A 5 m2 *Area is tweaked so that the the bed diameter and l
Bed Diameter 2.523132522 m

LES 5.609094857 m
LUB 1.869698286 m *Assumption: Since there is lack of experimental da

Theoretical Total Bed Length 7.478793143 m

 Unless you plan or propose for operators to work on a 12-hour shift, there is no logic in
using 12 hours as the basis for switch adsorption beds. What is normally done is that the
regeneration cycle is suited to the operator's shift hours - either 8 or 16 hours - so that
proper control and bed changes can be done.

http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/fluid.cgi?Action=Load&ID=C7732185&Type=SatP&Digits=5&THigh=101&TLow=99&TInc=1&RefState=D
and you will find that the specific volume of steam at 100oC and 1.0 atm = 1.6718 m3/kg

What is "standard" about this volume?

There are the conditions for STEAM; why
k.nist.gov/chemistry/fluid/
is WATER mentioned? WHAT is being
components.fed?Ideal gas laws are used here.

ints here really

he final

What are the SOLIDS involved here? I

though you were loading liquid water
and ethanol on solid adsorbent?

pical alumino-silicate 3A molecular sieve

umino-silicate 3A molecular
Wheresieve
and how in the devil did you arrive at this
bed area? Kindly show some references, basis, and
relevent theory that backs up the calculations.
cking.com/molecular%20sieve/3a_molecular_sieve.htm
radeindia.com/Exporters_Suppliers/Exporter2697.332876/3A-Molecular-Sieve.html

hat the the bed diameter and lengths are ratioed to allow a balance between capital cost and pressure requirements (approximately b

here is lack of experimental data, let LUB equal one quarter of total bed length (i.e. one third of LES)
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uirements (approximately bed length:bed diameter = 3:1 in this case)

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Mechanical/Energy Requirements for Feed Transport

Pump
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