A Novel Technique to Solve Mathematical Model of Pressure Swing Adsorption System for Oxygen Separation from Air

The mathematical modeling of a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) system is discussed in detail for the Skarstrom cycle of two-bed process. The system is used to get pure oxygen product from the air with the use of zeolite 13X as an adsorbent. There are complex partial differential equations (pdes) which may not solve by analytical methods. There is no provision for solving it in any other software other than Matlab. All the equations are rearranged and written into dimensionless quantities, to make it easier. It is a novel technique of solving these complex PDEs. After that we have converted these PDEs into ODEs (Ordinary Differential Equations) by using OCFE (Orthogonal Collocation on Finite Elements) method. Now, these ODEs can be solved using different solvers like ode23, ode45, ode113, ode15s, ode23s, ode23t, ode23tb. The results obtained by this model will be compared to real industrial data.