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High-pressure sour gas adsorption on zeolite 4A

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In an effort to measure self-consistent adsorption isotherms for sour gas species on zeolite 4A, two high-pressure manometric adsorption instruments have been built for measurement up to p = 225 bar. A comparison of CO2 adsorption up to p = 200 bar on Fitrasorb F400 activated carbon shows the reliability of these instruments. For the purpose of this work, high purity zeolite 4A was synthesized and characterized by SEM/EDX, XRD, FTIR, and DLS. High-pressure adsorption isotherms (absolute and excess) for CO2, COS, CH4 and H2S adsorption on zeolite 4A have been reported for T = 0, 25, and 50 °C along with corresponding parameters for the modified Tóth isotherm. The adsorption of COS on zeolite 4A showed some unexpected results, where (i) lower temperature isotherms were dominated by size effects, (ii) the adsorption capacity was half that of CO2 or H2S, and (iii) computational calculations for HOMO bond orientation indicate that COS should be excluded from zeolite 4A, despite the experimental results.

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  1. Utilizing a cubic spline fitting procedure allows determining the isosteric enthalpy of adsorption without prior fitting to an isotherm equation. In this work, the isosteric enthalpy of adsorption is only calculated in ranges where experimental values of the absolute amount adsorbed have been determined.

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This research has been funded through the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Alberta Sulphur Research Ltd. (ASRL) Industrial Research Chair program in Applied Sulfur Chemistry. The authors are grateful to NSERC and supporting member companies of ASRL.

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    Kyle G. Wynnyk, Behnaz Hojjati, Payman Pirzadeh & Robert A. Marriott

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Wynnyk, K.G., Hojjati, B., Pirzadeh, P. et al. High-pressure sour gas adsorption on zeolite 4A. Adsorption 23, 149–162 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10450-016-9841-6

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