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The main problem nowadays for industries to handle is the large amount of emissions that come out of the large chimneys from their boiler plants. Though it is an important part of combustion to emit exhaust, this causes the environment to be polluted and thus also causes harm to not only the life of people present in the industry but also to the water bodies around the industry. The pollution level in New Delhi 2015 was a record-breaking 989 ppm; about 600 ppm above the danger limit. Delhi in the year 2016 was named as one of the most polluted city on the planet. These industries not only cause the air to pollute but also the water also which is a needful form of food for many creatures. Keeping all this in mind the main aim of the project that we put forward is the reduction of nitrogen constituent in the air present around us by the use of pressure swing adsorption method. In this method, we would adsorb nitrogen present in the air which comes in from an inlet hose and adsorbed in the first chamber with the help of zeolites. For the adsorption of other harmful gases such as carbon monoxide and SOx, we have also incorporated two types of zeolites (5A and 13X); one which adsorbs the light particles of NOx and other which adsorbs the heavy particles of sulfur and some other harmful gases. The main aim of the project is to produce a model that adsorbs nitrogen separating it out from the oxygen so that it can be sent in for better combustion in boilers.
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Khanna, Y., Puri, S., Verma, P., Putta, D., Joshi, P. (2019). Separation of Nitrogen from Combustion Using Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Technique and Incorporating Zeolites. In: Kumar, M., Pandey, R., Kumar, V. (eds) Advances in Interdisciplinary Engineering . Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6577-5_14
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