A novel waste gas treatment technology to remove volatile organic contaminants with high concentration

Volatile organic compounds (VOC) are compounds that readily evaporate at room temperature. The increasing demand and use of products containing VOC’s, has caused a rapid increase in the VOC’s entering the atmosphere. These compounds have a direct and negative impact on the environment and are also known to pose risks to human health. Currently, there are a variety of techniques available for the removal of VOC’s that include adsorption, pressure swing adsorption (PSA) and vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) are used to remove light VOC’s, although the focus of this research project will be to recover the heavier VOC’s as products, which is an area with very limited research available. The two major anticipated outcomes for this project include obtaining basic experimental data for adsorption and desorption on different materials and to develop optimized technological parameters for future industrial application.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jesse Zhu

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Partner:

Tianjin University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Western University

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