RESEARCH ARTICLE

Enrichment of CO from syngas with Cu(I)Y adsorbent by five-bed VPSA

  • Shuna LI ,
  • Huawei YANG ,
  • Donghui ZHANG
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  • Chemical Engineering Research Center, State key laboratory of chemical engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

Received date: 21 Mar 2013

Accepted date: 02 Sep 2013

Published date: 05 Dec 2013

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Cu(I)Y adsorbent was prepared by reduction of Cu(II)Y which was prepared by ion exchange between the NaY zeolite and a solution of Cu(II) chloride. The dynamic adsorption capacity of Cu(I)Y for CO was calculated by adsorption breakthrough curve measured on a fixed bed at 30°C and 0.006 MPa (g) of CO partial pressure. The calculated CO adsorption capacity was 2.14 mmol/g, 37.5 times as much as that of NaY zeolite. The adsorption breakthrough curve experiment was also simulated with Aspen Adsorption software and the results were approximately consistent with experimental results. Then a five-bed VPSA process for separating CO from syngas on this adsorbent was dynamically simulated with Aspen Adsorption software with the adsorption pressure of 0.68 MPa (g) and the desorption pressure of -0.075 MPa (g). The results showed that CO was enriched from 32.3% to 95.16%–98.12%, and its recovery was 88.47%–99.44%.

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Shuna LI , Huawei YANG , Donghui ZHANG . Enrichment of CO from syngas with Cu(I)Y adsorbent by five-bed VPSA[J]. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2013 , 7(4) : 472 -481 . DOI: 10.1007/s11705-013-1351-4

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