Experience of operating a battery adsorber in a closed air-conditioning system

Journal Article · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1977 · Coke Chem., USSR (Engl. Transl.); (United States)

OSTI ID:5808996

Shtein, A L; Shuverov, G P; Kuzevanova, A V; Shuverov, S P; Etrukhin, A N; Ryazanova, S P; Trondina, G I

The problem of how to clean air-conditioning exhausts by adsorption is discussed, with reference to a battery-type adsorber incorporated in the closed-cycle air-conditioning system for the benzole rectification shop in a coking plant. A more promising alternative is the multi-layer adsorber, in which the adsorbent is arranged in a number of plane layers. The apparatus at the Kemerovo plant appears to have the best construction available; it is rectangular in both vertical and horizontal cross-sections and contains a series of vertical walls packed with adsorbent and horizontal walls through which the polluted-air enters and the purified air leaves. The walls are separated by gauze filters. The battery adsorber has been installed in the closed-cycle air-conditioning system serving the benzole rectification shop. This system incorporates numerous advantages; it prevents the direct pollution of air entering the shop with toxic substances and dust from the atmosphere round the shop; it greatly reduces the heating costs, since it eliminates the need to heat fresh air from outside the shop during cold weather. The battery adsorber is a compact and efficient unit, and the operating costs are insignificant. More particularly, it eliminates air pollution with benzene-laden air from the rectification shop and lowers the average degree of pollution within the shop.

• OSTI ID: 5808996
• Journal Information: Coke Chem., USSR (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Coke Chem., USSR (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 8; ISSN COKCA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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