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Carbon Purification Breakthrough Analysis

The document provides data from a problem involving the adsorption of alcohol vapors from an air stream using activated carbon. It gives the dimensions and mass of the carbon bed, inlet stream properties, and breakthrough curve data. It asks to determine: 1) The breakpoint time, fraction of capacity used to the breakpoint, and length of unused bed. 2) The saturation loading capacity of the carbon. It provides formulas to calculate these values from the data given in the problem statement and breakthrough curve table.

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Carbon Purification Breakthrough Analysis

The document provides data from a problem involving the adsorption of alcohol vapors from an air stream using activated carbon. It gives the dimensions and mass of the carbon bed, inlet stream properties, and breakthrough curve data. It asks to determine: 1) The breakpoint time, fraction of capacity used to the breakpoint, and length of unused bed. 2) The saturation loading capacity of the carbon. It provides formulas to calculate these values from the data given in the problem statement and breakthrough curve table.

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Tutorial Problem-5 ON ChE 422 & ChE 542 Advance Separation Processes Semester-1, 2014 Solve all the

problems in class itself Problem:1


A waste stream of alcohol vapour in air from a process was adsorbed by activated carbon particles in a packed bed having a diameter of 4 cm and length of 14 cm containing 79.2 g of carbon. The inlet gas stream having a concentration co of 600 ppm and a density of 0.00115 g/cm3 entered the bed at a flow rate of 754 cm3/s. Data in Table 12.3-1 give the concentrations of the breakthrough curve. The breakpoint concentration is set at c/co = 0.01. Do as follows. a) Determine the breakpoint time tb, the fraction of total capacity used up to the breakpoint tu/tt, and the length of the unused bed HUNB. (b) Determine the saturation loading capacity of the carbon

Table Q12.3-1: breakthrough data

Time,h 0 3 3.5 4 4.5 5

C/C0 0 0 0.002 0.030 0.155 0.396

Time, h 5.5 6.0 6.2 6.5 6.8

C / C0 0.658 0.903 0.933 0.975 0.993

Formula given

tu =
L = us ts, Ls = us tb
L = Ls

tb

c 1 c dt 0

tu H UNB = 1 t HT t tu H B = HT tt

+ LUB

LUB = L-Ls = L (1-tb/ts)

HT = HUNB + HB

reakthrough

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