Optimal separation of n‐paraffins from Kuwait kerosene using a molecular sieve adsorbent

Abstract

A study has been made of the vapour-phase adsorptive separation of n-alkanes from Kuwait kerosene using zeolite molecular sieves (LMS-5Afractional ability of adsorbent within the MTZ to adsorb additional solute (found by calculating the area above the breakthrough curve as in Fig. 3) length of dead, or unused, adsorbent bed (m) effective efficiency of the adsorbent column (%) the dynamic capacity of the adsorbent (g n-paraffin 1OOg-' zeolite) concentrations of n-paraffin before and after adsorption (wt %) amount of solution and of adsorbent respectively (g)