The development of a portable oxygen concentrator is of prime significance for patients with respiratory problems. This paper presents a portable concentrator prototype design using the pressure/vacuum swing adsorption (PVSA) cycle with a deep evacuation step (-0.82 barg) instead of desorption with purge flow to simplify the oxygen production process. The output of the oxygen concentrator is a ...

Adsorption of 1-propanethiol on Co and Cd modified, synthetic (3A, 4A and 13X) zeolites were studied by FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) spectroscopy and SEM-EDX (Scanning Electron Microscope-Energy Dispersive X-Ray) graphics. Amount of metal cations on mentioned zeolites was measured by AAS (Atomic Absorption Spectrometer). Based on divalent cations of zeolites, it was assumed that cations ma...

This paper is reporting new finding in the field of adsorbate-adsorbate interaction for supercritical carbon dioxide adsorption by One-Kondo model analysis. Adsorption isotherms for supercritical carbon dioxide on activated carbon Filtrasorb 400 and on zeolite 13X have been evaluated and shown to demonstrate adsorption compression phenomenon at high pressure end just as in subcritical systems. ...

Human GWAS and Mendelian genetic studies have linked polymorphic variants and mutations in the human uromodulin gene (UMOD) with chronic kidney disease. The primary function of this kidney-specific and secreted protein remains elusive. This study investigated whether UMOD deficiency modified responses to unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO)-induced kidney injury. Kidneys harvested from groups ...

About 60% of the energy input in chemical industry is discarded from plant. Energy saving can be achieved entire plant by recovering these waste heats and reusing them as power heat sources An adsorption pump has been developed for purpose regeneration such unused energy. In this study, saturated humid air was supplied to a device packed with 13X zeolite particles 4 mm diameter. The time variat...

The study involved the removal of acidity from free fatty acid via esterification reaction oleic with ethanol. was done in a batch reactor using commercial 13X zeolite as catalyst. effects temperatures (40 to 70 °C) and time (up 120 minutes) were studied 6:1 mole ratio pure ethanol 5 wt. % results showed that removed increased increasing temperature time. Also, rises sharply during first period...

In this work we aimed to optimize the production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) by an Arthrobacter viscosus biofilm supported on 13X zeolite to be used in the biosorption of Cr(VI). The optimization parameters were agitation rate, work volume, pH and glucose concentration. Following the optimization of EPS production, the biofilm was used in the biosorption of hexavalent Cr from li...

We investigate the potential of a class of recently discovered metal-organic-framework materials for their use in temperature swing adsorption (TSA) processes for CO2 capture; the particularity of the considered materials is their reversible and temperature dependent step-shaped CO2 adsorption isotherm. Specifically, we present a comprehensive modeling study, where the performance of five diffe...

The increasing adoption of Graphic Process Unit (GPU) to computation-intensive workloads has stimulated a new computing paradigm called GPU cloud (e.g., Amazon’s GPU Cloud), which necessitates the sharing of GPU resources to multiple tenants in a cloud. However, state-ofthe-art GPU virtualization techniques such as gVirt still suffer from non-trivial performance overhead for graphics memory-int...