MULTICOMPONENT ADSORPTION EQUILIBRIUM OF ETHYLENE, PROPANE, PROPYLENE AND CO2 ON 13X-ZEOLITE

Experimental adsorption isotherms of binary, ternary and quaternary mixtures of ethylene, propane, propylene and CO2 on 13X zeolite have been obtained at 293 K. Experimental data of mixtures were fitted to three theoretical models, the ideal adsorbed solution (IAS), real adsorbed solution (RAS) and spreading pressure dependence (SPD) models to reproduce and predict equilibrium data. With the SPD model, two other temperatures were also studied, 279 and 308 K, in order to calculate the model parameters. The best models for binary and multicomponent mixtures showing the highest deviation from ideality were RAS and SPD, with RAS better than SPD for ternary mixtures.