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

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目调查修改三个实验室仪器的超快速循环（URC）吸附过程的动态分析的可行性。目前的方法具有功能和/或软件特性，限制了它们在超毫秒持续时间URC周期的动态检查中的性能。该项目将通过软件修改、传感器和数据采集升级以及采用调频激光光谱（FMS）技术来解决这些限制。可用分析仪器通过表面积和孔径分布来表征吸附剂。 吸附分离系统在尺寸和效率上的改进，其基础是改进的实验室分析技术。分离/纯化行业正在发现越来越多的商业和航空航天应用。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理解和开发URC过程，以实现这些和其他新的应用。

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.