Abstract
Oil Vapor recovery is a critical process in downstream chemical industries, in oil and gas industries and in environmental protection. For that purpose, highly-efficient absorbent materials for vapor recovery are in high demand and their associated adsorption kinetics is of great importance for their performance. As oil vapor consists of multiple components with different physical and chemical properties, modeling the overall adsorption kinetics of activated carbon for multi-component oil vapor is essentially valuable for industrial applications. In this work, we developed a comprehensive model of multi-component gas adsorption kinetics on activated carbon in a packed-bed reactor and numerically solved the model by the finite element method. The predictions from the model are all in the reasonable range indicating good validity of the model. Some dimensionless parameters are also derived to further investigate the prediction results.
Highlights
In oil and gas industry, chemical industry and many other related industries, efficiently recovering the useful components from oil vapor is an essential part of their operations [1]-[5]
We assume that activated carbon adsorption is operated in constant temperature, and the oil vapor concentration is very low compared with adsorption capacity of activated carbon
The adsorption kinetics of oil vapor on activated carbon was simulated through convection-diffusion model
Summary
In oil and gas industry, chemical industry and many other related industries, efficiently recovering the useful components from oil vapor is an essential part of their operations [1]-[5]. Among all the different methods for oil vapor recovery, using efficient absorbents to physically capture the components of oil vapor at near atmospheric pressure is widely applicable in industry [1] [2] [5] [7] [8]. We developed a comprehensive mathematical model which describes the process of multicomponent oil vapor adsorption on activated carbon in a packed-bed reactor. More comprehensive model could be further developed by taking into account of other processes, the results from this model serve as a good reference for designing more efficient oil vapor recovery systems based on activated carbon absorbents. We expect more experimental investigations to be done in order to validate our model
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