Heat generation in natural gas adsorption systems
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Source
- Conference: Gaseous fuels for transportation, Vancouver, Canada, 7 Aug 1986
- Subject
- 03 NATURAL GAS ACTIVATED CARBON
SORPTIVE PROPERTIES
METHANE
ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS
NATURAL GAS
STORAGE
ADSORPTION HEAT
CONTAINERS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
MEDIUM PRESSURE
MEDIUM TEMPERATURE
TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE
TIME DEPENDENCE
ADSORBENTS
ALKANES
CARBON
DATA
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENTHALPY
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
HYDROCARBONS
INFORMATION
ISOTHERMS
NONMETALS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
SURFACE PROPERTIES
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES 035000* -- Natural Gas-- Storage-- (1989-)
033000 -- Natural Gas-- Properties & Composition
- Language
- English
Experiments were conducted using a high-surface-area carbon as an adsorbent for methane to determine the impact of the heat of adsorption upon the storage capacity. The rapid filling of an adsorption storage system under conditions in which the heat of adsorption is not dissipated results in only about 75% of the methane being stored at 3.44 MPa (500 psia) as can be stored by a slow fill rate with heat dissipation. These results depend upon the initial temperature of the absorbent bed and upon the characteristics of the substrate itself. 4 refs., 5 figs.