• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2006년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.447-450
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• 2006

Hydrogen separation from multi-component mixture gases by the four-bed PSA process was studied experimentally and theoretically using layered bed of activated carbon and zeolited 5A. Effects of the adsorption time, the linear velocity on the process performance were investigated. The adsorption time and linear velocity affected the purity and recovery of the product $H_2$ purity is increases according as the adsorption time and linear velocity decrease; however, $H_2$ recovery shows an opposite phenomena to the purity. PSA process simulation studied to find optimum operation condition. In the results, 50sec adsorption time, 3cm/s linear velocity might be optimal values to obtain more than 99.999% purity and 65% recovery hydrogen.

• 청정기술
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2004

PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorption) 공정과 VSA (Vacuume Swing Adsorption) 공정은 산소를 얻기 위산 중/소규모의 분리 공정들 중에서 가장 널리 쓰이는 공정들이다. PSA 공정과 VSA 공정은 주기적인 압력 변화에 따른 각각의 흡착질의 흡착제에 대한 흡착량의 차이를 이용하여 분리하는 공통점을 가지고 있지만 가압과 탈착 압력에서 차이가 있다. 이번 연구에서는 압력평등화를 포함하는 6단계 PSA 공정과 5단계 VSA 공정을 제시하였고, 흡착 시간과 가압 시간, 그리고 압력 평등화 시간의 변화에 따른 산소순도와 회수율의 변화를 살펴보았다. 그 결과, 제올라이트 10X를 사용한 VSA 공정은 제올라이트 5A를 사용한 PSA 공정과 제올라이트 13X를 사용한 VSA 공정보다 우수한 성능을 보였다. 또한, 동일한 시간에서 PSA와 VSA 공정의 순도와 회수율간의 관계를 비교하여 200Torr 정도의 진공압력 상태에서는 VSA 공정이 PSA 공정보다 회수율과 생산성이 높았다. 이 사실을 바탕으로 높은 생산성과 대규모화에는 PSA 공정에 비해 VSA 공정이 적합하다는 사실을 알아내었다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.7-19
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• 2022

일반적으로 수소의 정제는 화학적, 물리적인 방법을 통해 수행한다. 여러 종류의 정제방법 중 현재는 정제 용량 및 경제성이 가장 우수한 PSA(Pressure Swing Adsorption)를 이용한 정제방법이 가장 널리 사용되고 있다. 국내도 대부분 PSA를 이용하여 자동차 및 발전용 수소 연료전지 등에 사용하는 수소를 정제하고 있다. 기존 석유화학 단지중심의 부생수소는 운송 등의 어려움이 있다. 정부는 도시가스 공급망과 연계하여 소비지에서 직접 수소를 생산하는 수소추출기 설치 계획하고 있으며, 기업들도 이와 관련된 연구 및 실증 설비를 속속 설치하고 있는 실정이다. 유럽 등은 최근 PSA와 관련된 안전기준을 마련하여 시공 및 운영단계에서 체계적인 안전관리를 위한 노력을 기울이고 있으나, 국내는 PSA와 관련된 안전기준 마련이 아직까지는 미흡하다. 본 연구에서는 기존 PSA를 운영하고 있는 회사의 설문 및 위험성평가를 통해 기존설비의 문제점을 파악하고, 국외 기술기준에 이를 포함한 국내 기술기준을 작성하여 신규설치 및 기존 운영되고 있는 PSA시스템의 안전을 도모하고자 한다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.943-962
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• 2014

Industrial gas drying, dilute gas mixtures purification, air fractionation, hydrogen production from steam reformers and petroleum refinery off-gases, etc are conducted by using adsorptive separation technology. The pressure swing adsorption (PSA) has certain advantages over the other methods, such as absorption and membrane, that are a low energy requirement and cost-effectiveness. A key component of PSA systems is adsorbents that should be highly selective to a gas being separated from its mixture streams and have isotherms suitable for the operation principle. The six standard types of isotherms have been examined in this review, and among them the best behavior in the adsorption of $CO_2$ as a function of pressure was proposed in aspects of maximizing a working capacity upon excursion between adsorption and desorption cycles. Zeolites and molecular sieves are historically typical adsorbents for such PSA applications in gas and related industries, and their physicochemical features, e.g., framework, channel structure, pore size, Si-to-Al ratio (SAR), and specific surface area, are strongly associated with the extent of $CO_2$ adsorption at given conditions and those points have been extensively described with literature data. A great body of data of $CO_2$ adsorption on the nanoporous zeolitic materials have been collected according to pressure ranges adsorbed, and these isotherms have been discussed to get an insight into a better $CO_2$ adsorbent for PSA processes.

• 청정기술
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2008

RPSA 공정은 기체 혼합물을 흡착법을 이용하여 분리하는 주기적인 공정으로 일반적인 방법의 적용이 어려운 기체 혼합물의 분리에 적용될 수 있다. 공기로부터 분리된 산소는 의료용 산소발생기, 생물학적 폐수처리 공정 등에 이용되어 왔으며 다른 공정에의 적용이 점차 확대되고 있다. RPSA 공정은 한 개의 흡착탑을 이용하여 분리하므로 기존의 PSA공정에 비해서 장치의 구성이 간단하다. 본 연구에서는 공기로부터 산소를 농축하는 RPSA 공정의 기초연구를 통하여 산소농축공정 개발을 위한 기초자료와 제반 기술을 확립하고자 한다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.819-826
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• 2022

Fuel cell systems are being supplied to households and buildings to reduce greenhouse gases. The fuel cell systems have problems of high cost and slow startup due to fuel processors. Greenhouse gas reduction of the fuel cell systems is also limited by using natural gas. The problems can be solved by using a hydrogen generator consisting of a reformer and pressure swing adsorption (PSA). However, part load operation of the hydrogen generator is required depending on the hydrogen consumption. In this paper, PSA operation strategies are investigated for part load of the hydrogen generator. Adsorption and purge time were changed in the range of part load ratio between from 0.5 to 1.0. As adsorption time increased, hydrogen recovery increased from 29.09% to 48.34% at 0.5 of part load ratio. Hydrogen recovery and hydrogen purity were also improved by increasing adsorption and purge time. However, hydrogen recovery dramatically decreased to 35.01% at 0.5 of part load ratio.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.281-286
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• 2011

The objective of this study is to optimize the four-bed six-step pressure swing adsorption(PSA) process for high purity $CH_4$ recovery from the biogas. The effects of P/F(purge to feed) ratio and cycle time on the process performance were evaluated. The cyclic steady-states of PSA process were reached after 12 cycles. The purity and recovery rate of product gas, pressure and temperature changes were constant as the cycle repeated. It was shown that the P/F ratio gave significant effect on the product recovery rate by increasing the amount of purge gas in purge and regeneration step. The optimal P/F ratio was found to be 0.08. As the cycle time increased, the product purity decreased by increasing the feed gas flow rate. It was found that the optimal operating conditions were P/F ratio of 0.08 and total cycle time of 1,440 seconds with the purity of 97%.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.197-204
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• 2021

Pressure swing adsorption is a purification process which can get pure hydrogen. The purification process is composed of four process: compression, adsorption, desorption and discharge. In this study the adsorption process was simulated by using the Fluent and validated with experimental results. A gas used in experiment is composed of H₂, CO₂, CH₄, and CO. Adsorption process conducted under 313 kelvin and 3 bar and bituminous-coal-based (BPL) activated carbon was used as the adsorbent. Langmuir model was applied to explain the gas adsorption. And diffusion of all the gases was controlled by micro-pore resistances. The result shows that, the most adsorbed gas was carbon dioxide, followed by methane and carbon monoxide. And carbon monoxide took the least amount of time to reach the maximum adsorption amount. The molar fraction of the off-gas became the same as the molar fraction of the gas supplied from the inlet after adsorption reached the equilibrium.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.8-20
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• 2006

For large scale separation hydrogen from different mixing ratio(60/40 and 80/20 vol.%) of hydrogen and methane $1Nm^3/hr$ and $4Nm^3/hr$ 2bed-6step pressure swing adsorption(PSA) process was used, respectively. The effects of the feed gas pressure, adsorption time, the feed flow rate and the P/F(purge to feed) ratio on the process performance were evaluated. In the $1Nm^3/hr$ PSA results, 11 atm adsorption pressure and 0.10 P/F ratio might be optimal values to obtain more than 75 % recovery and 99 % purity hydrogen in these processing. The optimum feed flowrate was 22 LPM and 17 LPM in the ratio 60/40 and 80/20, respectively. In the $4Nm^3/hr$ PSA results, 10 atm adsorption pressure might be simulated values to obtain more than 80 % recovery and 99 % purity hydrogen in these processing.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.383-386
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• 2008

The four-bed PSA process using a layered bed of activated carbon and zeolite 5A was studied to produce a high purity hydrogen product from SMR off-gas. At a desired product purity (99.999%+), the recovery increased with decreasing the linear velocity. However, the difference of the increasing of the recovery became smaller with the decreasing of the linear velocity and then was similar from below the linear velocity 3.9 cm/s. When the adsorbents, the feed gas composition, and the operating conditions are given, the residence time is mainly a function for design of the PSA bed size. The minimum residence time exists to obtain the maximum recovery at desired product purity.