In this work, a commercial zeolite was physically impregnated with alkali hydroxides(LiOH, NaOH and KOH) for adsorption of low concentration carbon dioxide. The adsorption amount of carbon dioxide in a PSA process was evaluated under various experime...
In this work, a commercial zeolite was physically impregnated with alkali hydroxides(LiOH, NaOH and KOH) for adsorption of low concentration carbon dioxide. The adsorption amount of carbon dioxide in a PSA process was evaluated under various experiment conditions. Adsorption test was performed with different CO2 inlet concentrations (3000, 6000, 7500, 9000 ppm) and temperatures(298, 305, 313, 328 K). Adsorption amount of Li-Ze and Na-Ze was larger than K-Ze and raw zeolite 13X for low level carbon dioxide. The adsorption amount of the sorbents was higher at increasing CO2 concentration and at low temperature. The adsorption amount of modified sorbents was evaluated by using a few isotherm models such as Lanmuir, Freundlich, Sips, Toth equation. Amongst them, Sips equation was found to be the best fit to the experimental data, of which model would show heterogeneous adsorption characteristics on the sorbent surface. However, a large deviation from the experimental values was seen in a low pressure region. In order to simplify the calculation, qm could be a function of gas concentration and temperature, so that the equation variables were reduced and thereby the final form because a linear function. such a transformation would lower the errors in a low pressure region.