• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.04a
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• pp.13-18
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• 1994

99.9% 이상의 고순도 산소를 대량으로 생산하기 위하여는 주로 냉동 증류(cryogenic fractionation)가 사용된다[1]. 그러나 의료 분야를 비롯하여 소량의 산소를 필요로 하는 많은 분야에서 요구되는 산소의 순도는 40-90% 범위에 있다[2,3]. 이 정도 등급의 산소의 공급은 PSA(Pressure Swing Adsorption)과 MP(Membrane Permeation)의 공정에 의존하게 될 가능성이 크다[4,6]. 이는 이 공정들이 작은 규모의 생산에 적합할 뿐만 아니라 조업이 용이하고, 유지비가 적게 들며 장치의 재배치가 용이하기 때문이다.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.10a
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• pp.38-41
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• 1994

막분리(membrane separation)법은 막 전후의 압력차, 농도차 등을 추진력(driving foroe)으로 하여 분리대상물질에 대한 막의 선택투과성 차이를 이용, 분리를 행하는 것이다. 이 분리법은 기존의 분리공정인 심냉법(cryogenic separation)과는 달리 상변환 공정이 필요없어 에너지가 적게 들고 또한 PSA(pressure swing adsorption)법에서와 같은 cycle 운전이 필요없어 연속적으로 분리가 가능하며 시스템도 간단하다. 최근 기체 막분리의 경우 수소 및 탄산가스의 회수정제, 공기중의 산소와 질소의 분리 등에 실용화되고 있다. 여기서는 공기중의 산소를 분리하여 30-40% 산소부화공기(oxygen enriched air)를 간편하게 제조할 수 있는 산소부화막장치와 연소장치에의 응용기술 및 연구결과에 대해 간략히 소개하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.03a
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• pp.79-95
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• 1994

기체분리용 고분자분리막은 1977 미국 Monsanto 사의 Prism 분리기가 성공적으로 상업화된 이래 분리막의 수요가 점차 확장되어 가고 있다. 기체 분리공정은 크게 저온 분리법 (Cryogenic process), PSA (pressure swing adsorption) 그리고 분리막법 등이 있다. 저온 분리법과 PSA법의 공정에 대한 설계 및 운전기술 등이 잘 발달되어 있으며 현재 널리 사용되고 있는 보편화된 기술인 반면, 분리막 기술은 상대적으로 새로운 기술이며 성공적으로 상업화된지 약 15년이 되었다. 분리막을 이용한 기체분리법은 다른 공정에 비하여 에너지소비가 적고 설비투자도 적게 필요한 장점이 있다. 특히 적은 양의 기체를 생산하는 데 경제적이며 장비가 가볍고 좁은 공간에서도 사용할 수 있다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.310-318
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• 1999

The concentration breakthrough curves were examined to predict mass transfer coefficients of nitrogen and oxygen in adsorption column for design data of PSA process. Experimental breakthrough curves for bulk gas flow were compared with theoretical simulation results. For quantitative analysis of the adsorption, coupled Langmuir isotherm was considered and LDF model was used to describe the mass transfer effect. In the experimental and theoretical results, it was found that mass transfer coefficient was not affected by flow rate but strongly affected by pressure. As a result of this tendency, mass transfer resistance in this system was proved to belong to the macropore diffusion controlling region and the mass transfer coefficients could be expressed by exponential functions of pressure change. The mass transfer coefficients for one component, nitrogen or oxygen, were successfully applied to breakthrough curves for bulk mixed gases. The experimental curves were reasonably in consistent with the theoretical curves and the error time was less than 5 percent.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.414-422
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• 2008

Adsorption experiments for $H_2$, $CH_4$, CO, $CO_2$ on activated carbon and zeolite 5A were performed by static volumetric method. A 4-bed pressure swing adsorption (PSA) process was to study separation of hydrogen from multi-component mixture gases ($H_2$ 72.2%, $CH_4$ 4.06%, CO 2.03%, $CO_2$ 21.6%). Dual-site langmuir (DSL) isotherm showed good or fair agreement with the experimental results. The optimum height of activated carbon layer was 55 cm with breakthrough results on the packing ratio of activated carbon to zeolite 5A. In PSA process, the effects of the process parameters such as total cycle time ($T_c$), ${\Delta}P$ at the provide purge step and adsorption pressure on the PSA performance were studied experimentally and theoretically.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.43 no.6
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• pp.728-739
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• 2005

An experiment and simulation were performed for hydrogen separation of mixtures by PSA (pressure swing adsorption) process on activated carbon. The binary ($H_2/Ar$; 80％/ 20％) and ternary ($H_2/Ar/CH_4$; 60％/ 20％/ 20％) mixtures were used to study the effects of feed composition. The cyclic performances such as purity, recovery, and productivity of 2bed-6step PSA process were experimentally and theoretically compared under non-isothermal and non-adiabatic conditions. The develped process produced the hydrogen with 99％ purity and 75％ recovery from both processes. Therefore, optimal separation condition was referred multicomponent gas mixtures.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.315-317
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• 2005

공기중의 산소농축 PSA 기술로 RPSA(Rapid Pressure swing adsorption)이 적용되므로 1979년 이후 소형의 의료용 장치로 상업화되기 시작하였다. 산소발생기(산소농축기)의 경우에도 개량형 RPSA방식을 적용한 기술로써 최근 우리나라도 고령화 사회가 되므로써 의료용으로 사용이 확대되고 있으며, 기타 작업장이나 특수 시설 등에서 사용이 증대되고 있다. 이러한 산소농축기의 핵심부품 중의 하나인 흡착탑의 경우 흡착제 구성 및 흡착탑의 구조에 의하여 성능이 좌우되고 있다. 현재 상용화된 제올라이트의 각 흡착제의 흡착특성을 도출하기 위하여 압력, 온도, 수분함유량에 따른 파과곡선을 측정하여 흡착탑의 단수에 따른 최적 단수를 도출하였다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.201-209
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• 2006

Various desorption methods were investigated for an activated carbon and zeolite 13X packed bed after benzene adsorption. Desorption experiments using hot steam, purge gas, and evacuation were performed. As a result, the desorption with hot steam showed the best performance. Hot steam makes the temperature in the adsorption column increase and gives arise to the desorption. Drying process should be accompanied to increase the efficiency because steam vapor prevents the adsorption later. The vacuum desorption showed poor performance and it reveals that temperature swing operation is more effective than pressure swing operation. In the purge gas desorption, good performance was achieved using evacuation.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.53 no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 2015

At present, carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) emission, which causes global warming, is a major issue all over the world. To reduce $CO_2$ emission directly, commercial deployment of $CO_2$ separation processes has been attempted in industrial plants, such as power plant, oil refinery and steelmaking plant. Besides, several studies have been done on indirect reduction of $CO_2$ emission from recycle of reducing gas (carbon monoxide or hydrogen containing gas) in the plants. Unlike many competing gas separation technologies, pressure swing adsorption (PSA) and membrane filtration are commercially used together or individually to separate a single component from the gas mixture. However, there are few studies on operation of sequential separation process of multi-component gas which has more than two target gas products. In this paper, process simulation model is first developed for two available configurations: $CO_2$ PSA-CO PSA-$H_2$ PSA and $CO_2$ PSA-CO PSA-$H_2$ membrane. Operation optimization and economic evaluation of the processes are also performed. As a result, feed gas contains about 14% of $H_2$ should be used as fuel than separating $H_2$, and $CO_2$ separation should be separated earlier than CO separation when feed gas contains about 30% of $CO_2$ and CO. The simulation results can help us to find an optimal process configuration and operation condition for separation of multicomponent gas with $CO_2$, CO, $H_2$ and other gases.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 1994

There are growing needs to produce relatively high purity(99.0% or higher) oxygen at low cost. For small scale production, both pressure swing adsorption(PSA) and membrane process are competitive and less expensive or more convenient than well known cryogenic fractionation technology. A continuous membrane column(CMC) combined with a PSA oxygen generator can be employed to produce high purity oxygen continuously. The oxygen enriched gas generated by a PSA unit, with a concentration of 93~94%, is fed to the CMC that consism of three modules of poly(imide) hollow fibers. Several experiments were conducted by varying parameters, such as feed flow rate, transmembrane pressure drop, stage cut, and feed location in order to obtain a high oxygen concentration above 99.0%. A two-series unit mode was also employed with CMC operation to optimize the given membrane area.