Abstract
Dehydration adsorbents deactivate with time due to either pore mouth closure, window blocking, coking and/or hydrothermal decrystallization. These mechanisms of deactivation may be significant under severe hydrothermal conditions and/or in presence of reactive hydrocarbons at elevated temperatures and/or pressures. A mathematical model for predicting the uptake rates for crystal particles partially blocked either due to coking or pore mouth closure has been developed and numerical results, using the orthogonal collocation technique, have been obtained. Concentrated blockage of the crystal surface greatly reduces the mass transfer rate in comparison to uniformly distributed surface blockage.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 689-696 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Computers and Chemical Engineering |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 15 May 2003 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to acknowledge an anonymous referee for the comments provided on the source of the Jacobi polynomials. The authors also acknowledge King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals for the financial support provided for this work.
Keywords
- Adsorbents
- Deactivation
- Kinetics
- Sorption
- Zeolites
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemical Engineering
- Computer Science Applications