This work provides a set of experimental data on the adsorption of pure component, binary and ternary mixtures on activated carbon sample and two different zeolites at 303 K and moderate pressures (up to 10 bar for mixtures). Pure component data were measured by gravimetry and mixture data by volumetry coupled with chromatography. Results encourage more research on new materials and enhancement of adsorption-based separation processes with the proposed target.

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-Separation of CO 2 from CO 2 -CH 4 mixtures is an important issue in natural gas and biogas purification. The design of such separation processes depends on the knowledge of the behavior of multicomponent adsorption, particularly that of CO 2 -CH 4 mixtures. In this study, we present a series of experimental binary equilibrium isotherms for CO 2 -CH 4 mixtures on an activated carbon at 293 K and compare them with predicted values using the Ideal Adsorption Solution Theory (IAST) and the Extended Langmuir (EL) model. Even at concentrations of ca. 20% for all binary isotherms, CO 2 already presents higher adsorbed amounts with respect to CH 4 . A maximum selectivity of around 8.7 was observed for a nearly equimolar mixture at 0.1 MPa. The IAST in conjunction with the Toth equation showed slightly better results than IAST using the Langmuir equation and both showed better results than the EL model.

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