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You can download different publications, posters, application notes and presentations on this page. The resources include articles to breakthrough curves, vapor sorption, mixture adsorption and simulations.
Publications
Dynamic and equilibrium-based investigations of CO2-removal from CH4-rich gas mixtures on microporous adsorbents
Authors: A. Möller, R. Eschrich, C. Reichenbach, J. Guderian, M. Lange, J. Möllmer Journal: Adsorption, April 2017, Volume 23, Issue 2, pp 197–209, DOI: 10.1007/s10450-016-9821-x Abstract: The removal of CO2 from CH4-rich gas mixtures is one of the key technologies...
High-Pressure Separation of CH4/CO2 Using Activated Carbon
Authors: Carlos A. Grande, Richard Blom, Andreas Möller, Jens Möllmer Journal: Chemical Engineering Science 89 (2013) 10–20, DOI:10.1016/j.ces.2012.11.024 Abstract: Activated carbon was evaluated as selective adsorbent for separation of CO2 from CO2/CH4 mixtures with...
Dynamic Bed Measurements of CO Adsorption on Microporous Adsorbents at High Pressures for Hydrogen Purification Processes
Authors: M. Bastos-Neto, A. Moeller, R. Staudt, J. Böhm, R. Gläser Journal: Separation and Purification Technology 77 (2011) 251–260 DOI:10.1016/j.seppur.2010.12.015 Abstract: Regarding the importance of adsorptive removal of carbon monoxide from hydrogen-rich...
Breakthrough Curves of Methane at High Pressures for H2 Purification Processes
Authors: M. Bastos-Neto, A. Moeller, J. Böhm, R. Gläser, R. Staudt Journal: Chemie Ingenieur Technik, 2011, 83, No. 1–2, 183–190, DOI: 10.1002/cite.201000155 Abstract: This work provides a series of methane adsorption isotherms and breakthrough curves on one 5A...
Adsorption Measurements of Nitrogen and Methane in Hydrogen-Rich Mixtures at High Pressures
Authors: M. Bastos-Neto, A. Moeller, R. Staudt, J. Böhm, R. Gläser Journal: Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2011, 50, 10211–10221, DOI: 10.1021/ie200652e Abstract: The separation of nitrogen and methane from hydrogen-rich mixtures is systematically investigated on a recently...
Scientific Posters
Breakthrough Curves of Propane at Different Relative Humidities
05/2017 At: Leipzig, Conference: Leipziger Symposium | Dynamische Sorptionsmethoden In many separation processes, the adsorption of different components takes place in the presence of water. In fact, the competitive adsorption of water can have a tremendous influence...
Porous solids for heat storage applications: In-depth material testing by vapor breakthrough measurements
Presented at: 29. Deutsche Zeolith-Tagung, March 1st-3rd 2017 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Breakthrough measurements with water vapor provide useful information relevant for adsorptive heat storage applications, e.g. temperature profiles within the adsorber, adsorption...
Dynamic and equilibrium-based investigations of CO2 removal from CH4-rich gas mixtures on zeolites
12th International Conference on the Fundamentals of Adsorption, 29 May - 3 June 2016 Graf-Zeppelin-Haus, Friedrichshafen/Lake Constance The adsorptive separation of gas mixtures along a fixed bed adsorber is one of the most effective and thus economical separation...
Dynamic Investigation on the Adsorption of n-Alkanes on Polymer-based Activated Carbons
05/2016 At: Würzburg, Conference: Jahrestreffen Reaktionstechnik 2016 The separation of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas is a necessary step to reduce the dew point. For this purpose, adsorptive separation processes can be applied. For the design of industrial...
3P sim – A Modeling and Evaluation Tool for Dynamic Sorption Data
02/2016, Conference: Jahrestreffen der Fachgruppen Adsorption und Gasreinigung Modeling of dynamic sorption processes is very useful for the understanding of sorption characteristics on fixed bed adsorbers. With the help of such tools, the experimental time can be...
Breakthrough Curves of CO2 and CH4 on Carbon Molecular Sieves – Experiment and Modelling
Carbon 2015, Innovation with Carbon Materials, Dresden, July 12-17, 2015 Carbon molecular sieves (CMS) are widely used for the refinement of biogas to biomethane. This application is based on kinetic separation due to size selective adsorption in PSA processes. Modern...
Scientific Presentations
Breakthrough Curves of Propane at Different Relative Humidities
EBA 13, Encontro Brasileiro sobre Adsorção, December 3rd, 2020 In many applications organic compounds have to be removed from wet gas mixtures. To improve the efficiency of such applications, investigations of different materials under same conditions are necessary....
Characterization of sorption kinetics of CO2 from N2-rich gas mixtures studied by breakthrough experiments on Zeolites
Presented at:AiChE Annual Meeting 2019, November 10-15, Hyatt Regency, Orlando by Dr. Andreas MöllerEBA 13, Encontro Brasileiro sobre Adsorção, December 1st, 2020 by Dr. Andreas MöllerThe removal of CO2 from CO2-containing gas mixtures is essential in many...
Kinetic Separation of CO2/CH4 with MOF@Oxide Ceramic Core-Shell Composites
Presented at:Japan Adsorption 2019, May 21-23, 2019, International Conference Hall, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan by D. OtterThis presentation shows how a core-shell approach allows the combination of a high adsorption selectivity with a high loading for CO2 in...
Presentation: Analysis of Breakthrough Curves Sorption Equilibria and Kinetics
Presented at: 3P INSTRUMENTS-Workshop „New strategies for characterizing surfaces and pore structures“ on 2019-05-15 in Leipzig (Germany) by Dr. Andreas Möller This presentation gives an overview about breakthrough curve analysis - both with determining sorption...
Investigation of Mixed Gas Sorption in Lab-Scale–Experiment and Evaluation
Presented at: Adsorption Summer School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, June 14th 2018 by Dr. Andreas Möller This presentation gives detailed explanation about experimental and mathematical consideration of mixed gas adsorption experiments.
Flexible MOFs for Gas Separation ‒ A Case Study Based on Static and Dynamic Sorption Experiments
Presented at: CPM8, May 8th 2018 in Delray Beach Florida by Dr. Robert Eschrich This presentation underlines the importance of appliaction-related conditions for the characterization of porous materials. The determined selectivities for gas separation processes can...
Investigation of Mixed Gas Sorption in Lab-Scale
Presented at: QUANTACHROME-Workshop „Neue Strategien bei der Charakterisierung von Oberflächen und Porenstrukturen“ on 2018-04-18 in Leipzig (Germany) by Dr. Andreas Möller This presentation gives an introduction on the capabilities of the dynaSIM software in gas...
Adsorption of Polar and Nonpolar Vapors on Selected Adsorbents: Breakthrough Curves and their Simulation
Presented at: Leipziger Symposium - Dynamische Sorptionsverfahren 2018 on 2018-04-17 in Leipzig (Germany) by Dr. Robert Eschrich
Investigation of EtOH/Water Vapor Mixtures on Adsorbents with Different Surface and textural Properties
Presented at: 30. Deutsche Zeolithtagung, March 1st 2018, Kiel (Germany) by Dr. jens Möllmer (INC) and Dr. Andreas Möller This presentation deals with adsorbents of different polarity and their behavior in EtOH/water mixed vapor adsorption.
Modeling of Dynamic Sorption Processes
Presented at: Leipziger Symposium - Dynamische Sorptionsverfahren 2017 on 2017-05-30 inLeipzig (Germany) by Dr. Andreas Möller This presentation gives an introduction in the numeric simulation of dynamic sorption processes. This includes breakthrough curves and...
Working with Vapors and Low Concentrations in Breakthrough Experiments
Presented at: Live Webinar, 2017-03-28, Quantachrome Instruments by Dr. Robert Eschrich Many industrial adsorptive separation processes are dealing with vapors and/or adsorption of components with very low concentrations. Many ongoing phenomena can only be observed...
Investigation of Industrial Adsorbents by Gas Flow Methods
Presented at: Live Webinar, 2016-03-16 anf 2016-05-31, Quantachrome Instruments by Dr. Robert Eschrich Characterisation of Porous materials Workshop, 9th November 2016, London by Dr. Robert Eschrich Novel Analytical Techniques, 10th November 2016, London by Dr....
Investigation of sorption characteristics of technical adsorbens by dynamic methods
Presented at: Workshop "Charakterisierung technischer Adsorbentien und Katalysatoren", 15. September 2015 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany by Dr. Andreas Möller (Leipzig)
Application Notes
Breakthrough Curves of Polar and Nonpolar Vapors on Activated Carbon
Introduction In many gas phase applications different polar vapors have to be removed from a given gas mixture. Especially for waste air treatment, the presence of water can disturb the sorption of some harmful components. For this purpose activated carbons with...
The Use of Mixture and Pure Gas Adsorption Isotherms for Further Calculations and Predictions
Introduction 3P INSTRUMENTS offers two general ways to obtain information about mixed gas adsorption processes; first with the measurement of the dynamic sorption process with the mixSorb L (3P INSTRUMENTS) and second by use of the 3P sim software of the mixSorb L to...
Super-ambient Pressure Gas Separation Studies Using Breakthrough System Coupled With Mass Spectrometer
Introduction The investigation of separation performance of porous materials is very important for evaluation of such materials for separation processes. The separation of methane and carbon dioxide was studied on activated carbon as it appears in many applications...
Breakthrough Curves on Carbon Molecular Sieves – Experiment and Modeling
Introduction Carbon molecular sieves (CMS) are widely used for the refinement of biogas to biomethane [1]. This application is based on kinetic separation due to size selective adsorption in Pressure Swing Analysis (PSA) processes [2]. Modern CMS are tuned...
Determination of Breakthrough Curves and Effective Gas Sorption Capacities
Introduction Dynamic breakthrough experiments provide a powerful tool to assess the effective sorption capacity of porous materials exposed to flowing gas mixtures. In a typical breakthrough experiment, a flowing gas containing a well-defined concentration of...
Various
Particle World 21
Our application paper, PARTICLE WORLD, is published every year and contains various contributions about the characterization of dispersions, powders and porous substances from different tasks and industries. New measurement methods are presented and evaluated as well...
mixSorb SHP in the CIT 11/2018
The Chemie Ingenieur Technik features an article about the mixSorb SHP in its 11/2018 magazine. https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.201871112
Presentations and Posters of the Leipziger Symposium 2018
We want to thank all participants and speakers for their contributions to the Leipziger Symposium 2018! The presented material and the talks in-between gave a deep insight into dynamic sorption processes with a theoretical, experimental and application point-of-view....
Presentations, Posters and Pictures of the Leipziger Symposium 2017
We want to thank all participants and speakers for their contributions to the Leipziger Symposium 2017! The presented material and the talks in-between gave a deep insight into dynamic sorption processes with a theoretical, experimental and application point-of-view....
Particle World 19
Our application paper, PARTIKELWELT, is published every year and contains various contributions about the characterization of dispersions, powders and porous substances from different tasks and industries. New measurement methods are presented and evaluated as well as...
Whitepaper: dynaSorb BT™ Supports Adsorption Science
Investigations with the dynaSorb BT™ provide technically relevant information on adsorbents used in gas separation processes. Dr. Möllmer at the «Institut für Nichtklassische Chemie» (INC, Germany, office@inc.uni-leipzig.de) uses the dynaSorb BT™ for down-scaling of...
Partikelwelt 17 (German Language)
Our application paper, PARTIKELWELT, is published every year and contains various contributions about the characterization of dispersions, powders and porous substances from different tasks and industries. New measurement methods are presented and evaluated as well as...
dynaSorb BT Method Poster
Industrial adsorbents such as active carbons, zeolites and silica gels are widely used in adsorptive separation processes on a multi-ton scale. A complete understanding of the complex processes taking place in a fixed bed reactor is the key in order to achieve the...