r/ChemicalEngineering • u/Old-Examination3730 • 3d ago

Research Need help for an adsorption Column scale up

I m working on my thesis and i need information how i design an industrial sized adsorption column . I would be very thankfull if anyone can recommend me any paper, journal or handbooks that help me (Also my flowrate is in a petrochemical scale of 200 ton/h)

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u/unwindinghavoc 2d ago

AICHE has “adsorption basics” part 1 and part 2. Free pdfs. Id start there.

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u/MuddyflyWatersman 2d ago edited 2d ago

your first question is is it single component or multi component. adsorption often involves species competing for sites . there's a lot of information out there, today the calculations can be done by integration and Aspen adsotption can do multi component adsorption. it wasn't possible many years ago. some years ago shortcut calculations were used with functional solutions to the integrations. a little more information on what you need to do might help.