화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.15, No.6, 813-818, November, 2009
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2009.09.005  Export Citation
VOCs absorption in rotating packed beds equipped with blade packings
Chia-Chang Lin1, 2, †, Yu-Chiao Lin1, and Kuo-Shin Chien1
  • 1Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC
  • 2Pollution Prevention Group, Green Technology Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC
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This work investigated the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) removal efficiency of the RPB equipped with blade packings using absorption. Methanol, methyl ethyl ketone and methyl acetate were used as the model VOCs herein. The VOCs removal efficiency (E) was observed to increase with the rotational speed and the liquid flow rate but decrease with the gas flow rate. Moreover, methanol absorption provided the largest E values owing to that the solubility of methanol in water was the highest among three VOCs, implying that the centrifugal force induced from the RPB equipped with blade packings did not affect the thermodynamic property of VCOs. In addition, when the gas flow rate was 50 L/min, the highest E values for methanol, methyl ethyl ketone and methyl acetate absorption were 89.8, 77.6, and 68.9, respectively. Consequently, the RPB equipped with blade packings would be more applicable to the removal of more soluble VOCs from gaseous streams of huge flow rate.
Keywords:Rotating packed bed;Absorption;Mass transfer;VOCs;Blade packings
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