PRINCIPLES OF ADSORPTION AND ADSORPTION PROCESSES DOUGLAS M. RUTHVEN University of New Brunswick, Fredericton A Wiley-Interscience Publication JOHN WILEY & SONS New York Chichester Brisbane Toronto - Singapore‘Copyright © 1984 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc Al rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada Reproduction or tcanstation of any part of this work beyond that permitted by Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act without the permission of the copyright owner is unlawful, Requests for permission or further information should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Ine. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Dato: Ruthven, Douglas M. (Deuglas Morris, 1938— Principles of adsorption and adsorption processes. “A Wiley Interscience publication Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Adsorption. 2. Separation (Technology) L Tite TPISG.A3SR8 1984 660.2823 83-1690 ISBN 0-471.86606-7 Printed in the United States of America w9R7T6S 4324ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book had its origin in the notes prepared for a short course on adsorption presented to the staff of Exxon Research and Engineering Company in March 1981. The course was organized by Dr. Attilio Bisio, and without his sponsor- ship and encouragement this book would certainly not have been written. Some of the initial work on the manuscript was undertaken during a six month leave spent at the Exxon Research Center and the contributions, both direct and indirect, of my Exxon colleagues are gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks are due to Tom Reiter and the staff of the Aromatics Technol- ogy Division for releasing information on the Ensorb process and to Drs. Bal Kaul and Norman Swed, of Exxon Research and Engineering, and my colleague Dr. N. S. Raghavan, who undertook the onerous task of reading large sections of the manuscript. Their comments and criticisms were most helpful. Much of the work which is summarized in Chapters 4-6 and 8-9 was carried out over a period of more than 10 years by graduate students at the University of New Brunswick. Their contributions, as well as the contributions of the University of New Brunswick, the National Research Council of Canada, Atomic Energy of Canada Lid., AGA Innovation, and Exxon, who provided financial support for this research, are gratefully acknowledged. Thanks are due also to the many authors and publishers who gave permis. sion to reproduce figures and tables from earlier publications, and 1 am especially grateful to Dr. Diran Basmadjian for providing me with prepublica- tion copies of some of his recent articles and to Dr. Donald Broughton for providing information on the UOP ‘Sorbex’ process. The efforts of Darlene O'Donnell, who skillfully typed the difficult and often illegible manuscript, and Elizabeth Richard, who traced many of the figures, are sincerely appreci- ated, It has been a pleasure to collaborate with the staff of John Wiley and Sons who handled the editing and publication with their usual efficiency Finally I should like to thank my wife, Pat, for her patience, tolerance, and support throughout the course of this work D.M.R.