2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Diffusion, Transport and Dynamics in Adsorption Systems

This session is focused on measuring or modeling of mass transport in adsorbents and adsorption systems. Improving understanding of mass transport will allow design of more efficient separations.

Chair

Alberto Striolo, University of Oklahoma

Co-Chair

Yu Wang, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co

Presentations

08:30 AM

(776a) Influence of Packing On Gas Diffusion in Samaria Aerogel Catalyst By Diffusion NMR
Robert Mueller, Suihua Zhang, Björn Neumann, Marcus Bäumer, Sergey Vasenkov

08:45 AM

(776b) Efficient and Accurate Methods for Characterizing Effects of Framework Flexibility On Molecular Diffusion of CH4 in 8MR Zeolites
Rohan Awati, Peter Ravikovitch, David Sholl

09:00 AM

(776c) Linear Driving Force for Shaped Adsorbents
George Harriott, Bo Jin

09:15 AM

(776d) Toward Efficient Prediction of Gas Self-Diffusivity in Porous Materials
Yu Liu, Jia Fu, Jianzhong Wu

09:30 AM

(776e) Predicting Mixture Diffusion in Zeolites: Accounting for Strong Correlations With a Simplified Theory and Examining the Role of Mixture Adsorption Thermodynamics
Sanjeev M. Rao, Marc-Olivier Coppens

09:45 AM

(776f) Direct Simulations of Molecular Transport and Permeation of Gases in Polymeric Membrane Materials for Separation Processes
Hendrik Frentrup, Erich A. Muller, Kyle E. Hart, Coray M. Colina

10:00 AM

(776g) CO2-Propane Mixtures in Silica Pores: Relation Between Structure and Dynamics
David R. Cole, Anh T. Phan, Thu Le, Alberto Striolo

10:15 AM

(776h) Assessing the Performance of Microfibrous Entrapped Sorbent Enhanced Gas Phase Filter in a Full Scale Test Rig
Guomin Xu, Bruce J. Tatarchuk

10:30 AM

(776i) Kinetic Modeling of CO2 Adsorption On Pore-Expanded MCM-41
Sravanthi Loganathan, Mayur Tikmani, Aloke Kumar Ghoshal

10:45 AM

(776j) Adsorption Equilibrium and Mass Transfer Rates for Argon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen in a Carbon Molecular Sieve
Lucas A. Mitchell, Timothy J. Giesy, M. Douglas LeVan