Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Edward Landis Weist, Jr

Timothy Christopher Golden

Jianguo Xu

Jeffrey Raymond Hufton

Roger Dean Whitley

Robert Quinn

Annemarie Ott Weist

Erin Marie Sorensen

Nasim Ul Hassan Malik

Robin Joyce Maliszewskyj

Paul Anthony Novosat

Gowri Krishnamurthy

Blaine Edward Herb

James Michael Occhialini

Daniel Patrick Zwilling

Kuo-Kuang Hsu

King Wai Hung

Francis Joseph Waller

Steven R Auvil

Dingjun Wu

William T Kleinberg

Shailesh Pradeep Gangoli

Thomas Stephen Farris

David Ross Graham

Matthew James Labuda

Eugene S Genkin

Jeffrey Kloosterman

Andrew David Wright

Shubhra Jyoti Bhadra

Bryan Clair Hoke, Jr

Stephen Clyde Tentarelli

Jin Cao

Charles F Watson

Keith Alan Ludwig

Robert Ling Chiang

Bo Jin

Mark Robert Pillarella

Donald E Henry

David Lester Rarig

Jason Michael Ploeger

Clive Chalk

Leighta Maureen Johnson

Stephen John Gibbon

George Matthew Harriott

Cory E Sanderson

Jonathan James Berg

Winfried Stephen Hoglen

Charles Henry Johnson

Christopher Michael O'Neill

Patricia Kentosh Hershman

Theodore Michael Sabram

Fabrice Amy

Garrett C Lau

Petrus J Tijm

Dennis M Brown

Junxiao Wu

Charles Franklin Watson

A radial adsorber can be configured to facilitate utilization of different layers of material. The radial adsorber, system using at least one radial adsorber, and methods of utilizing embodiments of the radial adsorber can help permit improved efficient operation of fluid purification processing while also being configured to minimize, if not fully avoid, being susceptible to the effect of fluidization.

Radial adsorber, adsorption system, and adsorption methods

An adsorbent vessel for removing contaminants from a feed gas upstream from a cryogenic distillation process using pressure swing adsorption, temperature swing adsorption, or thermal-pressure swing adsorption. The adsorbent vessel having an adsorbent bed comprised of multiple layers of adsorbent material, including two layers of adsorbent material that selective adsorbs carbon dioxide. Each of the two layers is formed from an adsorbent material having a different capacity for adsorbing carbon dioxide.

Mixed bead layering arrangement for thermal swing adsorption application

Particle loading assembly and method for loading particles into a vessel to form a densely packed particle bed comprising an inner layer of particles and an outer layer of particles. The inner layer of particles is arranged radially and concentric with the outer layer of particles. The inner layer of particles contains at least a first type of particle of different granulometry or range of composition or both granulometry and range of composition from a second type of particles contained in the outer layer.

Particle loading method and apparatus for a radial flow vessel

Process and apparatus for producing helium, neon, or argon product gas using an adsorption separation unit having minimal dead end volumes. A second separation unit receives a stream enriched in helium, neon, or argon, and a stream is recycled from the second separation unit back to the adsorption separation unit in a controlled manner to maintain the concentration of the helium, neon, or argon in the feed to the separation unit within a targeted range.

Separation process and apparatus for light noble gas

Methods and apparatuses for separating COand sulfur-containing compounds from a synthesis gas obtained from gasification of a carbonaceous feedstock. The primary separating steps are performed using a sour pressure swing adsorption (SPSA) system, followed by an acid gas enrichment system and a sulfur removal unit. The SPSA system includes multiple pressure equalization steps and a rinse step using a rinse gas that is supplied from a source other than directly from one of the adsorber beds of the SPSA system.

Sour pressure swing adsorption process

An adsorption vessel comprising a packed bed region of adsorbent particles contiguously arranged, comprising a perforated adsorbent particles, a gas separation process using the perforated adsorbent particles, and methods for making the perforated adsorbent particles. The perforated adsorbent particles each comprise an adsorbent material where the perforated adsorbent particles each have at least 10 channels extending through the particle. The equivalent diameter of the channels may range from 0.05 mm to 1.5 mm, and the void fraction of the channels may range from 0.05 to 0.5.

Perforated adsorbent particles

A pressure swing adsorption process for an adsorption system having 12 adsorption beds, the process having a cycle with 5 pressure equalization steps. Background is provided for the various pressure swing adsorption cycle steps.

Pressure swing adsorption process

A process for separating a primary gas component from a feed gas mixture comprising the primary gas component and secondary gas components in four or more adsorption beds. The process comprises subjecting each of the four or more adsorption beds to a repetitive cycle. The repetitive cycle comprises, in sequence, a feed step, a pressure decreasing equalization step, a provide purge step, a blowdown step, a purge step, a pressure increasing equalization step, and a repressurization step. During the pressure decreasing equalization step, rinse gas is co-currently introduced simultaneous with the withdrawal of pressure equalization gas. Rinse gas is formed by compressing blowdown gas and/or purge gas effluent from the adsorption bed undergoing the purge step. The process is particularly suited for separating Hfrom a reformate stream.

A hydrogen production process wherein steam and a hydrocarbon feed is reacted in a prereformer, the prereformed intermediate is further reacted in an oxygen-based reformer, the reformate is shifted and then separated by a pressure swing adsorber to form a Hproduct stream and a tail gas, a first portion of the tail gas is recycled to the prereformer and/or the oxygen-based reformer, and a second portion of the tail gas is recycled to the pressure swing adsorber.

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A process for separating a first gas, for example CO, from a feed gas mixture comprising the first gas and a second gas, for example H, in five or more adsorption beds each containing an adsorbent selective for the first gas. The process comprises subjecting each of the adsorption beds to a repetitive cycle comprising, in sequence, (a) a feed step, (b) a rinse step, (c) a pressure decreasing equalization step, (d) a blowdown step, (e) an evacuation step, (f) a pressure increasing equalization step, and (g) a repressurization step. The feed gas mixture may be a reformate from a steam-hydrocarbon reforming process.

Adsorption process

Hydrogen sulfide is removed from a hydrogen rich gas stream using adsorbents having a low loss of carbon dioxide adsorption capacity upon sulfur loading including high purity silica gels, titania or highly cross-linked, non-chemically reactive resins. The adsorbents may be used to adsorb both carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, or may be used as a guard bed upstream of a separate carbon dioxide adsorbent.

Gas purification by adsorption of hydrogen sulfide

Helium is introduced as an additive to any of the oxygen streams introduced into an ozone generator, such as a dielectric discharge (cold plasma) ozone generator, where the effluent of the generator is directed to an adsorption process for separating the ozone from the oxygen. Also disclosed is an improved PSA cycle, which is designed to reduce the amount of make-up helium and oxygen required to sustain the ozone generation and recovery process.

Ozone production by pressure swing adsorption using a noble gas additive

A pressure swing adsorption cycle designed to reduce the variations in ozone concentration, and produce a higher average ozone concentration, in a product gas stream throughout the cycle. The cycle includes a relatively long air sweep stage and provides for the overlapping of the air sweep stage in two adsorber vessels. Effluent from an adsorber vessel in a feed rinse stage is routed to another adsorber vessel that is in an air sweep stage.

Pressure swing adsorption cycle for ozone production

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Edward Landis Weist, Jr