Silica-Coated Mesoporous Carbon as Solid Dessicant in Gas Dehydration Process

Fadlilatul Taufany, Fahmi Fahmi, Nurhamidah Nurhamidah

Abstract


Dehydration process using solid desiccant is required to reduce water content to meet pipeline gas GPSA specification (4-7 lb/MMscf). Porous silica gel has a high specific surface area (Grade 12 brand Davisil 800 m2/g), which is generally obtained via a high-cost supercritical technology. This research aims to substitute that of high-cost super critical technology by developing silica-coated mesoporous carbon. This research uses an impregnating-silica method consisting of pretreatment and hydrophilication processes. Here we found that the pretreatment process can increase the surface area of mesoporous carbon from 504.122 m²/g to 823.5 m²/g. While for the hydrophylication process, silica-coated mesoporous carbon was obtained via mechanical and chemical force. Silica-coated mesoporous carbon has adsorption capacity 70.59% of commercial silica gel.

Keywords


Gas dehydration; Hydrophilication; Mesoporous carbon; Silica-coated mesoporous carbon

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12962/j23546026.y2015i1.1165

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