Adsorption process.

摘要

A heat and mass exchange, pressure and/or thermal swing adsorption process wherein the adsorbent bed consists of one or more units having substantially parallel passages extending therethrough, each unit having at least 20 passages per cm<2> of the cross-sectional area of said unit, the number and cross sectional area of said passages in each unit being such that each unit has a geometric voidage of not more than 0.45. The adsorbent bed may be random packed or may be a close-packed assembly or stack of units with their passages aligned with the direction of flow through the bed.