SBIR Phase I: Instruments for Dynamic Characterization of Ultra-Rapid Cycle Adsorbents

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目调查了改装三种实验室仪器用于超快循环(URC)吸附过程动态分析的可行性。当前方法具有限制其在超毫秒持续时间URC周期的动态检查中的性能的功能和/或软件特性。该项目将通过软件修改、传感器和数据采集升级以及采用频率调制激光光谱(FMS)技术来解决这些限制。现有的分析仪器可以通过比表面积和孔径分布来表征吸附剂。吸附分离系统在规模和效率方面的改进都建立在实验室分析技术改进的基础上。分离/提纯行业正在发现越来越多的商业和航空应用。这些包括运输燃料电池、医用氧气浓缩器、燃料箱惰化。世界各地的实验室都在努力了解和开发URC过程，使这些和其他新的应用成为可能。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project investigates the feasibility of modifying three laboratory instruments for the dynamic analysis of ultra-rapid cycle (URC) sorptive processes. Current approaches have functional and/or software characteristics that limit their performance in dynamic examinations of supra-millisecond duration URC periods. This project will address these limitations through software modifications, transducer and data acquisition upgrades, and by the adoption of frequency modulated laser spectroscopy (FMS) technology. Analytic instruments are available that can characterize adsorbents by surface area and pore size distribution. The improvements to sorptive separations systems, in both size and efficiency, have their foundations in improved laboratory analysis techniques. The separations/purifications industry is finding increasing commercial and aerospace applications. These include transportation fuel cells, medical oxygen concentrators, fuel tank inerting. Laboratories throughout the world are striving to understand and develop URC processes that will enable these and other new applications.