Students' Projects

zeolite membrane filter for oxygen reach air
Department Chemical Engineering
Year 2017-18
Budget 65000
Students Neelkumar Upendrakumar Patel, pranay modi, ronik modi
Mentor Prof. N. M. Patel
Abstract Air pollution is becoming a worldwide problem. Currently, oxygen concentration techniques are based on air separation processes such as cryogenic technique, membrane separation and pressure swing adsorption (PSA). Compared to the membrane separation technique, which requires higher pressure and expensive selective permeable materials, pressure swing adsorption using nanosize zeolite adsorbents is a more feasible solution for portable oxygen concentrator development. Due to the large microporous surface area inside the zeolite adsorbents, the portable oxygen concentrator using the PSA technique can adsorb nitrogen from air and output an enriched oxygen stream under high-pressure conditions. The concentrator can be regenerated by decreasing the pressure to release the adsorbed nitrogen. The zeolite can be used as a molecular sieve to create purified oxygen from air using its ability to trap impurities, in a process involving the adsorption of nitrogen, leaving highly purified oxygen and up to 5% argon. Other Zeolite materials like biodegradable can be used in the form of more adsorbed BVT. Zeolite can also be made from the money plant well. Research into and development of the many biochemical and biomedical applications of zeolites, particularly the naturally occurring species heulandite, clinoptilolite and chabazite has been ongoing.