Transport in Porous Media, Vol.102, No.3, 349-364, 2014
Simplified Determination Method of Intraparticle Diffusivity Within a Resin Adsorbent from Binary-Component Liquid Adsorption Uptake Curves
To design and use adsorbers, adsorption kinetic properties must be determined. Several experimental methods and many analysis techniques for determining intraparticle diffusivity have been proposed for single- and multi-component adsorption systems. However, determining values from experimental data of multi-component adsorption systems requires trial and error curve-fitting of experimental with theoretical curves. Furthermore, adsorption calculations of multi-component systems are complicated. For example, displacement adsorption, which causes concentration overshoot phenomena, is troublesome when analyzing experimental data. This report focuses on a simple alternative analysis technique for determining the values of each component from binary-component adsorption uptake curves. This new analysis method was established for binary-component and pore diffusion-controlling adsorption systems, and enables to analyze binary-component uptake curves by use of single-component uptake curves. Treatment of the equilibrium relation is significant when calculating single-component adsorption uptake curves. This method is useful to analyze experimental results, even if the results show concentration overshoot.
Keywords:Binary component;Intraparticle diffusivity;Liquid adsorption uptake curve;Overshoot;Resin adsorbents