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DESIGN OF FIXED-BEDS TO REMOVE MULTICOMPONENT MIXTURES OF VOLATILE ORGANIC CHEMICALS
Citation:
Crittenden, J., G. Friedman, D. Hand, J. Berrigan, AND T. Speth. DESIGN OF FIXED-BEDS TO REMOVE MULTICOMPONENT MIXTURES OF VOLATILE ORGANIC CHEMICALS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/D-86/205 (NTIS PB86244217), 1985.
Description:
Laboratory bench-scale experiments determined that the ideal adsorbed solution theory (IAST) was adequate to predict multicomponent competitive interactions of adsorbates from single solute isotherm experiments. A correlation (developed by Williamson et al.) for the film transfer coefficient was sufficient to predict these coefficients for the VOC's. A correlation was also developed to estimate the surface diffusivity. The homogeneous surface diffusion model (HSDM), which incorporates IAST and the mass transfer correlations, can predict the multicomponent breakthough of VOC's. (Copyright (c) AWWA Annual Conference Proceedings, 1985.)