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Gasometric device for measuring CO2 scrubber performance efficiency

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Date Issued:
1986
Title: Gasometric device for measuring CO2 scrubber performance efficiency.
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Name(s): Wang, Tsen C.
Lenahan, Robert A.
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Date Issued: 1986
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 9 p.
Language(s): English
Identifier: FA00007491 (IID)
Note(s): Carbon dioxide absorbent materials and canister configurations in submersibles and other diving equipment have been studied for many years (1, 2, 3). The scrubber performance varies with absorbent granule size, porosity, carbon dioxide concentration, gas flow rate and canister configuration (1, 4, 5, 6). A scrubber is normally required to undergo a performance test prior to its use to determine expected life span at various environmental conditions (7, 8, 9). The test based on the scrubber breakthrough time does not provide either the actual absorbent conversion efficiencies nor the gas flow pathways inside the canister. This test is also very time consuming and requires sophisticated equipment. This paper ' describes a gasometric device which acidifies the carbonate from exhausted absorbents and measures the amount of co2 released from absorbing agents.
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 474
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Wang, T., & Lenahan, R. (1986). Gasometric device for measuring CO2 scrubber performance efficiency. In T. McGuinness & H. H. Shih (Eds.), Current practices and new technology in ocean engineering: [symposium] OED-Vol. 11 (pp. 363-370). New York, NY: American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Subject(s): Submersibles
Scrubber (Chemical technology)
Carbon dioxide
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