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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Physical Chemistry

Background:

  • Designing large-scale adsorption units requires understanding material behavior from molecular to process levels.
  • Predictive multicomponent adsorption equilibrium models are challenging for flexible adsorbents with non-Type I isotherms.
  • Flexible adsorbents, exhibiting unique transitions and thermal management, are underexplored at the process scale due to a lack of suitable isotherm models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a generalized, predictive isotherm model for flexible adsorbents that captures adsorption-induced structural transitions.
  • To provide a mechanistic approach for parametrizing adsorption equilibria in materials with diverse transitions.
  • To enable process-scale simulation and optimization of flexible adsorbent-based technologies.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a simplified statistical isotherm model for transition materials (SSI-T).
  • Parametrized the model using sorbate-dependent and -independent physical parameters.
  • Validated the model with unary and binary adsorption/desorption equilibrium data for various transition types.

Main Results:

  • The SSI-T model accurately describes unary adsorption and desorption isotherms in flexible adsorbents.
  • It predicts binary equilibria for multiple adsorption-induced transitions without additional parameters.
  • The model is continuous, differentiable, and explicit, suitable for process simulators.

Conclusions:

  • The SSI-T model is the first explicit isotherm model to mechanistically capture adsorption-induced transitions in flexible adsorbents.
  • It offers a generalized approach for diverse flexible materials, overcoming previous limitations.
  • The model facilitates the integration of flexible adsorbents into large-scale adsorption-based separation technologies.