Disclosed is a method for removing carbon dioxide from a gas stream, comprising placing the gas stream in contact with a resin, wetting the resin with water, collecting water vapor and carbon dioxide from the resin, and separating the carbon dioxide from the water vapor. The resin may be placed in a chamber or a plurality of chambers connected in series wherein the first chamber contains resin that was first contacted by the gas, and each successive chamber contains resin which has been wetted and carbon dioxide collected from for a greater period of time than the previous chamber, and so on, until the last chamber. Secondary sorbents may be employed to further separate the carbon dioxide from the water vapor.

Systems and methods are provided for performing a swing adsorption process, such as a temperature swing adsorption process. During portions of a swing cycle where one or more components are being desorbed, a vibration or other perturbation can be induced in the adsorbent and/or in the adsorbent structure to assist with desorption. Inducing a vibration or other perturbation in the adsorbent structure can provide a way to introduce additional energy into the adsorbent system without having to increase the temperature of the adsorbent structure.

The present invention is directed to the removal of mercury in a gas dehydration process using thermally table chemical additives. In the process a complexing agent is added to a recirculated glycol solvent as part of the glycol solution feed to the dehydration liquid contactor and recirculated continuously with the glycol solvent. The complexing agent selectively reacts with mercury in the wet natural gas to remove the mercury from the dry natural gas product.

Provided are a hydrogen recycle system and a hydrogen recycle method, whereby hydrogen can be purified to high purity at high yield from a gas, said gas being exhausted from a nitride compound production device, and recycled. The hydrogen recycle system 1 comprises an exhaust gas supply path 11 supplying a gas exhausted from a nitride compound production device 2, a hydrogen recycle means 10 and a hydrogen supply path 12. The hydrogen recycle means 10 of the hydrogen recycle system 1 is characterized by comprising: a plasma reaction vessel 31 that defines at least a part of a discharge space 32; a hydrogen separation membrane 34 that divides the discharge space 32 from a hydrogen flow path 33 communicated with the hydrogen supply path 12, defines at least a part of the discharge space 32 by one surface thereof and also defines at least a part of the hydrogen flow path 33 by the other surface thereof; an electrode 35 that is disposed outside the discharge space 32; and an adsorbent 36 that is filled in the discharge space 32 and adsorbs the supplied exhaust gas.

An apparatus for capture of CO.sub.2 from the atmosphere comprising an anion exchange material formed in a matrix exposed to a flow of the air.

This disclosure relates to a method that includes (1) contacting a solvent with a porous cyclodextrin-based metal organic framework (CD-MOF) adsorbed with CO.sub.2 to release CO.sub.2, and (2) collecting the released CO.sub.2. The CD-MOF includes at least a metal cation and a plurality of cyclodextrin components.

Process for converting waste plastics to refining feedstock. The process includes conducting pyrolysis of a plastic feedstock comprising waste plastics to produce a liquid stream of plastic pyrolysis oil; directly feeding the liquid stream of plastic pyrolysis oil to an adsorption based purification process to generate a treated plastic pyrolysis oil stream; and collecting the treated plastic pyrolysis oil stream from the adsorption vessel for further processing into value added products as a feedstock for conventional refining processes. The adsorption based purification process includes contacting the liquid stream of plastic pyrolysis oil with one or more adsorbent materials in an adsorption vessel, the adsorbent materials with at least one of the one or more adsorbent materials being configured for adsorption of organic molecules having heteroatoms of each of sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and chlorine. Such system may be integrated with a conventional refinery.

A pressure swing adsorption (PSA) system for purifying a feed gas is provided. The PSA system may have a first adsorber bed and a second adsorber bed, each having a feed port, a product port, and adsorbent material designed to adsorb one or more impurities from the feed gas to produce a product gas. The PSA system may also have a network of piping configured to direct the feed gas to the feed ports of the adsorber beds and direct the product gas to and from the product ports of the adsorber beds. The network of piping may also be configured to transfer gas between the first adsorber bed and the second adsorber bed during a pressure equalization step and a purge step. The PSA system may also have a first valve configured to direct flows of the feed gas and the product gas through the network of piping. The PSA system may further have a first orifice configured to regulate a flow rate of gas between the first adsorber bed and the second adsorber bed during at least one of the pressure equalization step and the purge step.

A process for the separation of a gas from a gas stream using metal organic framework that is reversibly switchable between a first conformation that allows the first gas species to be captured in the metal organic framework, and a second conformation that allows the release of the captured first gas species, using light as the switching stimulus. The metal organic framework may comprise a metal and one or more ligands, in which the ligands contain an isomerizable group within the molecular chain that forms a link between adjacent metal atoms in the metal organic framework.

The present invention relates to a system for capturing carbon dioxide from an air stream. The system includes a carbon dioxide capturing unit that includes a humidity/temperature adjusting unit with an evaporative cooling unit and a CO.sub.2 adsorbing unit. The CO.sub.2 adsorbing unit includes a sorbent column made of polyamine-Cu (II) complex resin. The humidity/temperature adjusting unit receives air stream from ambient atmosphere and process the air stream to obtain a humidity-adjusted air stream. The CO.sub.2 adsorbing unit receives the humidity-adjusted air stream to pass through the sorbent column. The sorbent column selectively adsorbs the CO.sub.2 from the humidity-adjusted air stream. The sorbent column is regenerated using an alkaline stream to separate the adsorbed CO.sub.2 from the sorbent column.