The development of a new adsorption-desorption device

Ľudmila Gabrišová, Peter Peciar, Oliver Macho, Martin Juriga, Paulína Galbavá, Žofia Nižnanská, Róbert Kubinec, Ivan Valent, Marián Peciar

The development of a new adsorption-desorption device

Číslo: 6/2020
Periodikum: Acta Polytechnica
DOI: 10.14311/AP.2020.60.0455

Klíčová slova: Adsorption, desorption, air stripping, activated carbon, ethanol

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Anotace: The aim of this work was to construct a new adsorption-desorption device based on the principle of separation of volatile organic compounds, e.g., ethanol. As an adsorbent, it is possible to use granulated activated carbon (GAC) in the adsorption and desorption process. In this study, two kinds of GACs were used and marked as GAC1 and GAC2. A particle size distribution and water vapour sorption for the selected GACs were measured. An experiment with distilled water was performed as a preliminary study of the new device’s functionality. After the determination of the time necessary for the adsorption and desorption, the experiments were carried out with a model mixture (5% v/v ethanol-water mixture), which resulted in a product with the ethanol content of 39.6 %. The main advantage of this device would be the potential competition of conventional distillation.