PSA has merits of low energy consumption, small investment, simple procedure, easy to operation, high reliability, and environment friendly.
The mechanism of PSA is to make use of the characteristic of adsorption discrepency between different components of gas, and the characteristic of the change of the amount of adsorption with the change of pressure. Gas purification and separation is achieved by periodically changing pressure.
PSA has been used in following 9 areas:
1. Hydrope purification;
2. CO2 purification, food grade CO2 can be produced directly;
3. CO purification;
4. Converted gas purification;
5. Natural gas purification;
6. Air separation to produce hydrope;
7. Air separation to produce N2;
8. Gas concentration to produce CH4;
9. Concentrate and purificate ethene.