The invention relates to the intensification of hydrogen PSA processes through utilization of specifically engineered core-shell composite adsorbents. Different embodiments of core-shell adsorbents can be used with either high or low heat capacity cores, and different adsorbent shells (e.g. activated carbon, zeolite, silica gel, alumina etc.) resulting in higher mass transfer rates and hence sharper mass transfer fronts during the PSA process. The location of the limiting impurity front determines the product purity. Therefore, with sharper impurity fronts, lower height of adsorbent bed is required, and cycle time can be proportionally reduced. Also, thermal swing during the PSA can be reduced by use of such adsorbents. The use of a high heat capacity core to reduce the thermal swing, leads to higher overall working capacity of the adsorbent bed.

The present description provides high working capacity adsorbents with low DBL bleed emission performance properties that allows the design of evaporative fuel emission control systems that are lower cost, simpler and more compact than those possible by prior art. Emission control canister systems comprising the adsorbent material demonstrate a relatively high gasoline working capacity, and low emissions.

A composite filter aid may include at least one mineral associated with an antimicrobial metal compound, wherein the filter aid has a permeability ranging from 0.1 to 20 darcys. The antimicrobial metal compound can be chemically deposited on the mineral surface or bonded to mineral structure by binder or high temperature calcination.

The present invention generally relates to the use of porous polymer materials as a medium for the storage of biological samples. The present invention also relates to a method of drying and storage of biological samples on the porous polymer materials. The biological samples include blood and blood plasma samples.

Provided is a zeolite-based adsorbent in the form of agglomerates, where the adsorbent having a tortuosity factor, calculated from the pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry, of greater than 1 and less than 3. The adsorbent also has a porosity as determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry of between 25% and 35%. The adsorbent is useful in the field of separations in particular in a process for separating para-xylene from aromatic hydrocarbon isomer fractions containing 8 carbon atoms.

The present invention provides a remediation material for heavy-metal chromium contaminated soil, comprising: 10-30% by weight of stable curable adhesive, 30-50% by weight of composite adsorbent, and water in balance. The present invention further provides a method of preparing the remediation material. The remediation material in the present invention is capable of absorbing chromium from soil and contributes to recycle of the materials so as to enable efficient remediation, repeated recycle, and reduction in remediation cost.

The present description provides high working capacity adsorbents with low DBL bleed emission performance properties that allows the design of evaporative fuel emission control systems that are lower cost, simpler and more compact than those possible by prior art. Emission control canister systems comprising the adsorbent material demonstrate a relatively high gasoline working capacity, and low emissions.

An adsorbent material is provided. The adsorbent material comprises a porous, non-particulate substrate comprising pores having a size in the range of about 1 m to about 1 mm, and a conformal coating film deposited on the porous, non-particulate substrate, wherein the conformal coating film comprises topographical features having a feature size in the range of about 1 nm to about 1 m. A method of preparing the adsorbent material and an adsorbent device are also provided.

Disclosed in certain embodiments are sorbents for capturing heavy hydrocarbons via thermal swing adsorption processes.

The invention provides a micro-interface enhanced oxidation system and an oxidation method for preparing hydrogen peroxide, wherein the micro-interface enhanced oxidation system includes: an oxidation reactor, wherein a top portion of a side surface is provided with a liquid phase pipeline for delivering hydrogenated anthraquinone, and a bottom portion of the side surface is provided with a gas phase pipeline for delivering air; and a liquid distributor, a packing section, a seal pan and a hybrid micro-interface unit that are arranged in order from top to bottom are arranged in the oxidation reactor, wherein the hybrid micro-interface unit comprises a upper-mounted micro-interface generator and a lower-mounted micro-interface generator that are communicated with each other up and down, and the hydrogenated anthraquinone delivered in goes down in turn until being mixed with the air in the hybrid micro-interfacial unit to be dispersed and crushed after being distributed through the liquid distributor.