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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2016
Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Simon C. Weston, Annandale, NJ (US);
Mobae Afeworki, Phillipsburg, NJ (US);
Bhupender S. Minhas, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Ramesh Gupta, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Hugo S. Caram, Allentown, PA (US);
Manoj K. Chaudhury, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Hans Thomann, Bedminster, NJ (US);
Hilda B. Vroman, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Meghan Nines, Lansdale, PA (US);
EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY, Annandale, NJ (US);
Abstract
A heat transfer fluid can be used as part of a multi-phase adsorption environment to allow for improved separations of gas components using a solid adsorbent. The heat transfer fluid can reduce or minimize the temperature increase of the solid adsorbent that occurs during an adsorption cycle. Reducing or minimizing such a temperature increase can enhance the working capacity for an adsorbent and/or enable the use of adsorbents that are not practical for commercial scale adsorption using conventional adsorption methods. The multi-phase adsorption environment can correspond to a trickle bed environment, a slurry environment, or another convenient environment where at least a partial liquid phase of a heat transfer fluid is present during gas adsorption by a solid adsorbent.