CA2016045A1 - Gas separation by pressure swing adsorption - Google Patents

Gas separation by pressure swing adsorption

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CA2016045A1
CA2016045A1 CA 2016045 CA2016045A CA2016045A1 CA 2016045 A1 CA2016045 A1 CA 2016045A1 CA 2016045 CA2016045 CA 2016045 CA 2016045 A CA2016045 A CA 2016045A CA 2016045 A1 CA2016045 A1 CA 2016045A1
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Bowie Gordon Keefer
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Abstract

Pressure swing adsorption is performed to separate a feed gas mixture into a product gas and a depleted gas mixture, in which either a more readily adsorbed component or a less readily adsorbed component of the feed gas mixture has been substanitally purified in the product gas. The apparatus and process provide for recovery of expansion energy, and for large exchanges of fresh feed gas for depleted gas mixture during each cycle.
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USRE38493E1 (en) 1996-04-24 2004-04-13 Questair Technologies Inc. Flow regulated pressure swing adsorption system
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US7687044B2 (en) 1999-06-10 2010-03-30 Xebec Adsorption Inc. Chemical reactor with pressure swing adsorption
US7250150B1 (en) 1999-06-10 2007-07-31 Questair Technology, Inc. Chemical reactor with pressure swing adsorption
US6514319B2 (en) 1999-12-09 2003-02-04 Questair Technologies Inc. Life support oxygen concentrator
US7250073B2 (en) 1999-12-09 2007-07-31 Questair Technologies, Inc. Life support oxygen concentrator
US6692626B2 (en) 2000-04-20 2004-02-17 Questair Technologies Inc. Adsorbent laminate structures
US7041272B2 (en) 2000-10-27 2006-05-09 Questair Technologies Inc. Systems and processes for providing hydrogen to fuel cells
US7037358B2 (en) 2000-12-11 2006-05-02 The Boc Group, Inc. PSA with adsorbents sensitive to contaminants
US8015808B2 (en) * 2001-01-09 2011-09-13 G4 Insights Inc. Power plant with energy recovery from fuel storage
US8541637B2 (en) 2009-03-05 2013-09-24 G4 Insights Inc. Process and system for thermochemical conversion of biomass
US9394171B2 (en) 2009-11-18 2016-07-19 G4 Insights Inc. Method and system for biomass hydrogasification
US10653995B2 (en) 2009-11-18 2020-05-19 G4 Insights Inc. Sorption enhanced methanation of biomass
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CN115055026A (en) * 2022-05-25 2022-09-16 云南通威高纯晶硅有限公司 Method for purifying mixed gas by using tube array adsorption column
CN117339344A (en) * 2023-12-04 2024-01-05 山东德利环保工程有限公司 Adsorption tower with double-layer adsorbers
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