DEVELOPMENT OF OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR GENERATOR BY USING PRESSURE SWING ABSORPTION SYSTEM (PSA)

DEVELOPMENT OF OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR GENERATOR BY USING PRESSURE SWING ABSORPTION SYSTEM (PSA)

Dr. Abhinav P. Ninawe*¹, Viranchi A Sawant*², Rajat S. Patil*³, Shubham V. Jais*⁴, Shubham D. Patle*⁵, Asmita K. Gajbhiye*⁶

^*1Assistant Professor, Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering, K.D.K. College of Engineering,

Nagpur.

^*2,3,4,5,6Student, Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering, K.D.K. College of Engineering, Nagpur.

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Abstract - Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is a fashion used to separate some gas species from a admixture of Feasts (generally air) under pressure according to the species' molecular characteristics and affinity for an adsorbent material. Significantly differs from the cryogenic distillation generally used to separate feasts when it operates at near- ambient temperature. picky adsorbent accoutrements (e.g., zeolites, (aka molecular sieves), actuated carbon, etc.) are used as trapping material, preferentially adsorbing the target gas species at high pressure. The process also swings to low pressure to desorb the adsorbed gas. Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is a cyclic adsorption process for gas separation and sanctification. PSA offers a broad range of design possibilities impacting the device nature. In the last decade important attention has been devoted towards simulation and optimization of colourful PSA cycles. The PSA beds are modelled with hyperbolic/ parabolic partial discrimination algebraic equations and the separation performance should be assessed at cyclic steady state (CSS). Design makes delicate by detailed fine models together with the CSS constraint. We propose a surrogate grounded optimization procedure grounded on kriging for the design of PSA systems. The numerical perpetration is tested with an

inheritable algorithm, with a multi-start successional quadratic programming system and with an effective global optimization algorithm. The separation of a double gas admixture of N2 and CO2 is studied in this case study by using the design of a binary piston PSA system.

Key Words:  PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorption), zeolite, cryogenic distillation, cyclic adsorption, gas separation and purification.