Multicomponent and multi-dimensional modeling and simulation of adsorption-based carbon dioxide separation

R. Ben-Mansour*, M. Basha, N. A.A. Qasem

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Abstract

A two-dimensional transient numerical study of the adsorption of CO2/N2and CO2/H2mixtures on activated carbon and MOF-177 in a fixed bed is presented. Because most of the commercial CFD codes are not capable of simulating adsorption processes in a straightforward fashion, we developed an additional code to solve for the different species transport including adsorption and diffusion and used Fluent to simulate the adsorption process, fluid flow, heat and, mass transfer. We simulated the adsorption process at high temperature-low pressure and low temperature-high pressure conditions as well as the pressure swing adsorption. For adsorption of CO2/N2and CO2/H2mixtures, Toth and Viral models are used calculate equilibrium isotherms. The breakthrough curves obtained from the simulations compare well with the experimental data. Moreover, the effects of aspect ratio and geometric shapes were studied. The results show that varying the bed aspect ratio from 7.77 to 2 has an insignificant effect on the adsorption capacity and performance.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)255-270
Number of pages16
JournalComputers and Chemical Engineering
Volume99
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

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Keywords

  • Activated carbon
  • Adsorption
  • Carbon capture
  • Carbon-dioxide
  • MOFs
  • Separation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemical Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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