Adsorption onto Activated Carbon Cloths and Electrothermal Regeneration: Its Potential Industrial Applications

Activated carbon cloths (ACCs) are recently developed adsorbents that could be used in many air treatment applications. The use of the Joule effect heating as a regeneration process offers many possibilities in terms of desorption operating conditions to adapt the cloth process to the constraints of...

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Published inJournal of environmental engineering (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 130; no. 3; pp. 249 - 257
Main Authors Subrenat, A, Le Cloirec, P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published American Society of Civil Engineers 01.03.2004
Subjects
Activated carbon filters
Adsorption
Air pollution
Desorption
Regeneration
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Summary:Activated carbon cloths (ACCs) are recently developed adsorbents that could be used in many air treatment applications. The use of the Joule effect heating as a regeneration process offers many possibilities in terms of desorption operating conditions to adapt the cloth process to the constraints of particular industrial applications. Hence, this paper presents ACC physical properties and adsorption-desorption cycles performed on a pilot plant to determine the influence of the desorption conditions on the desorbate quality. Two examples of activated carbon cloth processes for specific industrial applications are then presented. The role of the first one is to concentrate an industrial effluent upstream of recovery facilities. The second application is for indoor air treatment, where the desorbate quality is not the major interest but rather the development of a very simple system with an easily handled filter.
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ISSN:0733-9372
1943-7870
DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(2004)130:3(249)