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Complete separation conditions for a local equilibrium TCC adsorption unit
Author(s) -
Chiang Anthony S. T.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690440211
Subject(s) - simulated moving bed , countercurrent exchange , separation (statistics) , separation process , limiting , binary number , adsorption , process (computing) , nonlinear system , unit operation , pressure swing adsorption , thermodynamics , chemistry , process engineering , chromatography , mathematics , computer science , engineering , physics , mechanical engineering , arithmetic , quantum mechanics , operating system , statistics
A new technique presented can offer analytical solutions for the local equilibrium true countercurrent model to study the simulated moving‐bed (SMB) separation process. This equilibrium theory could be vey useful for predicting both optimal and robust operation conditions for the SMB separation process, if the results can be easily calculated. However, analytical solution was available only in the limiting case of binary separation. With this analytical solution for multicomponent systems, the application of equilibrium theory will be more practical. While developing these solutions, a new way of applying the well‐known ω‐transformation to nonlinear adsorption system was conceived. This approach may have broader applications than are presented here.