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Sorption of n-Alkanes on the Molecular Sieves. I. Description of the Equipment

D. Bobok, E. Kossaczký, and J. Ilavský

Department of Chemical Engineering, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava 1

Abstract: In this paper a laboratory equipment for determining the break-through adsorption and desorption curves is described. The measuring procedure consists of these actions: A suitable indifferent gas (nitrogen) is purified and saturated with an adsorbate which is evaporated from a free surface for this purpose. On saturating, the gas is preheated to the adsorption temperature and fed into the adsorber with adsorbent layer. At the outlet of the adsorber, the concentration of adsorbate in the carrier gas is measured continuously by means of a catharometer. After saturation of adsorbent with the adsorbate its •desorption starts with an indifferent gas. The equipment allows the measurements at the adsorption temperatures between 100 — 500°C for the values of the modified Reynolds numbers referred to the indifferent gas which vary over the range of 1 to 80.

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Chemical Papers 24 (2) 134–138 (1970)