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Main Title Scale-Up of Rapid Small-Scale Adsorption Tests to Field-Scale Adsorbers: Theoretical and Experimental Basis.
Author Berrigan, J. K. ;
CORP Author Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton.;Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH. Water Engineering Research Lab.
Year Published 1986
Report Number EPA/600/2-86/086;
Stock Number PB87-103594
Additional Subjects Colums(Process engineering) ; Activated carbon treatment ; Absorbers(Equipment) ; Absorption ; Model tests ; Design ; Mathematical models ; Diffusion ; Beds(Process engineering) ; Experimental data ; Pilot plants ; Solutes ; Mixtures ; Profiles ; Correlation ; Hydraulic loading
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NTIS  PB87-103594 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Design of full-scale adsorption systems typically includes expensive and time-consuming pilot studies to simulate full-scale adsorber performance. Accordingly, the rapid small-scale column test (RSSCT) was developed and evaluated experimentally. The RSSCT can simulate months of full-scale adsorber operation in several days without extensive isotherm and kinetic data. The disperse-flow, pore- surface-diffusion model (DFPSDM) was used to determine the scaling factors because the DFPSDM includes most of the important phenomena that occur in fixed-bed adsorbers. Using these scaling relationships, similar breakthrough profiles for the RSSCT and full-scale adsorber are expected when they are compared in terms of the number of bed volumes that were fed. Experimental RSSCT breakthrough profiles for a six solute mixture at influent concentrations between 3000 -6000 micro gram/l were found to be identical to those of a pilot-scale column test.