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Title: Adsorption characteristics of water vapor on gear-pellet and honeycomb-pellet types of adsorbents containing A-type zeolite

Abstract

It is necessary to recover or process tritiated species that are extensively coexistent in nuclear fusion installations. A conventional way to recover tritium release to atmosphere is catalytic oxidation of tritiated species and adsorption of tritiated water vapor on adsorbents with high surface areas. Therefore, new adsorbents with low pressure loss and high surface areas need to be developed and utilized for such large-scale adsorption systems. In this study, attention was focused on new adsorbents, which are gear-type pellet MS5A adsorbent, gear-type pellet MS4A adsorbent and honeycomb-type pellet MS5A adsorbent. The adsorption characteristics of the new adsorbent were comparatively studied with conventional type of adsorbents (pellet-type MS5A adsorbent and pebble-type MS5A adsorbent), in terms of adsorption capacity, pressure loss and adsorption rate. It was found that the adsorption capacity of water vapor on the gear-type adsorbents is higher than that on a honeycomb-type adsorbent. The experimental breakthrough curves indicate that the adsorption rates of water vapor on gear-type and honeycomb-type adsorbents are smaller than that on conventional type adsorbents. Various adsorption models were also tested to correlate the experimental isotherms. It was found that the Langmuir-Freundlich model could properly correlate the experimental adsorption isotherms.

Authors:
; ; ;  [1];  [2];  [3]; ;  [4]
  1. Akita University, Akita (Japan)
  2. Nagoya University, Furo-cho Chikusa-ku, Nagoya (Japan)
  3. Kyushu University, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka (Japan)
  4. National Institute for Fusion Science, Tokai, Gifu (Japan)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22429751
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Fusion Science and Technology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 67; Journal Issue: 3; Conference: TRITIUM 2013: 10. International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology, Nice Acropolis (France), 21-25 Oct 2013; Other Information: Country of input: France; 2 refs.; Journal ID: ISSN 1536-1055
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; OXIDATION; PELLETS; SURFACE AREA; TRITIUM; TRITIUM OXIDES; WATER VAPOR; ZEOLITES

Citation Formats

Nakamura, A., Munakata, K., Hara, K., Narita, S., Sugiyama, T., Kotoh, K., Tanaka, M., and Uda, T. Adsorption characteristics of water vapor on gear-pellet and honeycomb-pellet types of adsorbents containing A-type zeolite. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.13182/FST14-T64.
Nakamura, A., Munakata, K., Hara, K., Narita, S., Sugiyama, T., Kotoh, K., Tanaka, M., & Uda, T. Adsorption characteristics of water vapor on gear-pellet and honeycomb-pellet types of adsorbents containing A-type zeolite. United States. https://doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T64
Nakamura, A., Munakata, K., Hara, K., Narita, S., Sugiyama, T., Kotoh, K., Tanaka, M., and Uda, T. 2015. "Adsorption characteristics of water vapor on gear-pellet and honeycomb-pellet types of adsorbents containing A-type zeolite". United States. https://doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T64.
@article{osti_22429751,
title = {Adsorption characteristics of water vapor on gear-pellet and honeycomb-pellet types of adsorbents containing A-type zeolite},
author = {Nakamura, A. and Munakata, K. and Hara, K. and Narita, S. and Sugiyama, T. and Kotoh, K. and Tanaka, M. and Uda, T.},
abstractNote = {It is necessary to recover or process tritiated species that are extensively coexistent in nuclear fusion installations. A conventional way to recover tritium release to atmosphere is catalytic oxidation of tritiated species and adsorption of tritiated water vapor on adsorbents with high surface areas. Therefore, new adsorbents with low pressure loss and high surface areas need to be developed and utilized for such large-scale adsorption systems. In this study, attention was focused on new adsorbents, which are gear-type pellet MS5A adsorbent, gear-type pellet MS4A adsorbent and honeycomb-type pellet MS5A adsorbent. The adsorption characteristics of the new adsorbent were comparatively studied with conventional type of adsorbents (pellet-type MS5A adsorbent and pebble-type MS5A adsorbent), in terms of adsorption capacity, pressure loss and adsorption rate. It was found that the adsorption capacity of water vapor on the gear-type adsorbents is higher than that on a honeycomb-type adsorbent. The experimental breakthrough curves indicate that the adsorption rates of water vapor on gear-type and honeycomb-type adsorbents are smaller than that on conventional type adsorbents. Various adsorption models were also tested to correlate the experimental isotherms. It was found that the Langmuir-Freundlich model could properly correlate the experimental adsorption isotherms.},
doi = {10.13182/FST14-T64},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22429751}, journal = {Fusion Science and Technology},
issn = {1536-1055},
number = 3,
volume = 67,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}