Software development for designing gas adsorption processes

M. S. ALIVAND, M. FAGHIHI and S. MIRIAN, Nitel Pars Co. (Fateh Group), Tehran, Iran; and S. SADIGHI, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Catalysis Research Division, Tehran, Iran Adsorption in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries is used for separation and purification of different gas and liquid streams. However, the lack of a suitable design process for adsorption columns remains an engineering challenge. Some scientific references offer rules of thumb for designing cyclic adsorption columns, but a reliable procedure based on exact correlations (i.e., one based on the extraction of experimental data and computational fluid dynamics simulations) has been implemented by only a fe