Abstract: A pressure swing adsorption process with six adsorbers is operated with only one adsorber in an adsorption phase. The adsorbers pass through switching cycles wherein, following an adsorption phase, there are conducted four- or five-stage coccurent expansions, then a countercurrent expansion, a scavenging with cocurrent expansion gas, and a multistage pressurizing to the adsorption pressure. In this process, three or four pressure equalization stages are provided.

Abstract: A pressure swing adsorption process for the selective adsorption of at least one gaseous component from a gaseous mixture and an apparatus for performing the process wherein the gaseous mixture is conducted in cyclic alternation through at least three adsorbers and each adsorber is subdivided into two serially connected adsorber sections. The feed gas mixture is passed, during an adsorption phase, through respectively two series-connected adsorber sections. After termination of at least one cocurrent expansion phase, the adsorber sections are isolated from each other, and the first adsorber section, i.e., first traversed by the feed gas mixture, is further expanded while the second adsorber section is maintained at a higher pressure. Thereafter, the second adsorber section can be expanded countercurrently and thus-withdrawn countercurrent expansion gas can be utilized for purging the first adsorber section.

Abstract: In a pressure swing adsorption process conducted in a plurality of cyclically interchangeable adsorbers, for recovering a hydrocarbon, e.g.

Abstract: In a process for the separation of at least two crude gas streams of differing composition in a single pressure swing adsorption plant operated with several cyclically reversible adsorbers passing respectively through an adsorption phase, and a regenerating phase, comprising stages of expansion, purging, and pressure buildup, the improvement wherein said pressure swing adsorption plant comprises a plurality of groups of adsorbers, said groups communicating only via outlet sides thereof, and wherein each crude gas stream is associated with a single group of adsorbers through which the respective crude gas stream is conducted in a cyclically reversible fashion and separated therein, and that expansion gas is obtained at least during one stage of the expansion in one group of adsorbers is conducted into an adsorber of another group, the latter adsorber being in a regenerating phase.

Abstract: A pressure swing adsorption process conducted with plural cyclically reversible adsorbers, each of the adsorbers undergoing identical switching cycles. The switching cycles include sequentially at least one adsorption phase, at least two expansion phases, at least one desorption phase employing a purge gas which is foreign and inert relative to the material adsorbed in the adsorbent phase, a displacement phase employing a gas obtained from an expansion phase of one of the adsorbers to displace the purge gas, and at least one pressure build-up phase.

Abstract: In a pressure swing adsorption process for the separation of gases comprising the steps of passing crude gas under a superatmospheric adsorption pressure through a drying bed of H.sub.2 O-selective adsorbent to remove gaseous H.sub.2 O and then passing resultant H.sub.2 O-free gas sequentially through a separate and distinct zeolite-containing adsorbent bed for the removal of low-boiling impurities and the further steps of pressure release, desorption and pressure buildup to adsorption pressure, the improvement in the pressure buildup step which comprises introducing an H.sub.2 O-depleted gas obtained during said process to a point intermediate the drying bed and said zeolite-containing adsorbent bed and passing said H.sub.2 O-depleted gas into the drying bed in a countercurrent direction to the flow of crude gas and into the zeolite-containing adsorbent bed in a cocurrent direction to the flow of crude gas, and continuing said passing of said H.sub.

Abstract: In a process for the removal of lubricant mists and lubricant vapors from a compressed gas comprising passing the compressed gas through an oil filter and an adsorber, the improvement which comprises, after passing the gas through the oil filter, heating the gas to such an extent that any oil mist remaining therein is completely vaporized before the gas is conducted through the adsorber.

Abstract: An adsorption process for purifying or fractionating a gaseous feed mixture comprises an adsorption phase, at least one expansion phase, a purging phase and at least one pressure build-up phase. The expansion phase(s) and the purging phase produce residual process gas fractions. The sum total of volume, and/or mass streams of the residual process gas fractions comprises a residual gas stream which is maintained chronologically substantially constant by controlling the volume and/or gas streams of the gas entering the purging phase and maintaining the gas leaving the expansion phase(s) at a substantially constant value, dependent on the desired mass and/or volume quantity of the residual gas stream.

Abstract: For the separation of gaseous mixtures:(a) passing a feed gas containing components A and B successively through two adsorption beds selected for component A to evolve an adsorption front of component A proximate the outflow end of the first adsorption bed, discharging an A-free product gas from the second adsorption bed, then interrupting the passing of the feed gas;(b) lowering the pressure of both adsorption beds in the adsorption direction so that proportions of unadsorbed component A are withdrawn from said first adsorption bed, and said proportions from the first adsorption bed are adsorbed in the second adsorption bed, and withdrawing an A-free gas from the second adsorption bed;(c) at the pressure of step (b), conducting a further gaseous mixture in the adsorption direction through both adsorption beds, the partial pressure of component A in said further gaseous mixture being equal to or higher than in the feed gas, interrupting the feeding of said further gaseous mixture before the breakthrough of co

Abstract: A method of operating a multi-adsorber pressure-swing adsorber installation in which each adsorber is, in a given cycle, operated for a plurality of time slots in an adsorption stage, subjected to a plurality of pressure-relief phases over corresponding time slots by pressure equalization with other adsorbers, the pressure-relief phases are followed by purging phases and ultimately pressure buildup phases likewise by pressure equalization with other adsorbers.

Abstract: A process for providing a feed gas for a chemical reaction and for separating a gaseous reaction product from the gaseous mixture obtained by the reaction, wherein the feed gas is obtained by the fractionation of a crude gas mixture containing this feed gas proper, as well as a carrier gas or carrier gas mixture, and is reacted only incompletely in the reaction, and wherein the unreacted proportion is to be recycled into the reaction, the improvement wherein the fractionation of the crude gas mixture and the separation of the gaseous reaction product are conducted in a single adsorption plant operating by the pressure swing method and containing cyclically reversible adsorbers.

Abstract: An adiabatic adsorption method for pressure-swing adsorbers, e.g. for gas purification or separation of components of a gas mixture, in which several switchable adsorbers are used in an adsorption phase followed by at least two pressure-relief stages and at least one pressure buildup stage with an intervening purging in the adsorption-desorption/regeneration cycle. According to the invention, at least one of the adsorbers is operated as an auxiliary adsorber by comparison with a main adsorber with a reduced contact time between the adsorption medium and gases in the auxiliary adsorber. This reduced contact time can result from a reduced adsorption-phase period by comparison with that of the main adsorber (reduced residence time) and/or by using a reduced charge of the adsorption medium in the auxiliary adsorber by comparison with that of the main adsorber.