Chemie Ingenieur Technik, Vol.83, No.1-2, 183-190, 2011
Breakthrough Curves of Methane at High Pressures for H-2 Purification Processes
This work provides a series of methane adsorption isotherms and breakthrough curves on one 5A zeolite and one activated carbon. Breakthrough curves of CH4 were obtained from dynamic column measurements at different temperature and pressure conditions for concentrations of 4.4-17.3 mol.-% in H-2/CH4 mixtures. A simple model was developed to simulate the curves using measured and calculated data inputs. The results show that the model predictions agree very well with the experiments.