Capture and Recovery of Methyl Ethyl Ketone with Electrothermal-Swing Adsorption Systems
Publication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 137, Issue 9
Abstract
The amount of organic vapors that are emitted to the atmosphere can be reduced with the use of electrothermal-swing adsorption (ESA) with activated carbon fiber cloth (ACFC). This paper describes a pilot-scale ESA system that was scaled up based on two ESA bench-scale systems. Each ESA system consists of two vessels with four ACFC cartridges. The bench-scale and pilot-scale systems were tested with adsorption and desorption cycles using gas streams containing 73–10,000 ppmv and from 170–940 ppmv methyl ethyl ketone, respectively. Total flow rate ranged from to for the bench unit and for the pilot unit. Scale-up procedure of an ESA system from the bench-scale to the pilot-scale is presented for the first time. Scale-up was based on throughput ratio, length of unused bed, adsorption capacity, pressure drop, superficial gas velocity in the ACFC, organic vapor removal efficiency, duration of the adsorption cycle, duration of the regeneration cycle, liquid recovery efficiency, electrical power/energy applied to the ACFC cartridges, and temperature of the ACFC cartridges.
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Acknowledgments
The writers acknowledge support from the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)-Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Texas A&M University–Kingsville. Scholarship support from CONACYT-Mexico and the International and Lake Michigan States Section of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) is also acknowledged.
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Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 137 • Issue 9 • September 2011
Pages: 826 - 832
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© 2011 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Aug 16, 2010
Accepted: Mar 3, 2011
Published online: Mar 5, 2011
Published in print: Sep 1, 2011
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