F-200 Spherical Beads of Activated Alumina are industry-leading solutions for drying various liquids and gases, providing uniform ball sizes with smooth surfaces to minimize channeling during pneumatic loading and allow taller tower designs with lower pressure drops. Their low abrasion, high crush strength, and resistance to amines makes this product stand out among traditional molecular sieve adsorbents.
Low abrasion
BASF F-200 desiccant beads are comprised of smooth spheres of activated alumina that have been engineered to preferentially attract highly polar molecules and act as an effective desiccant for drying liquids and gases, such as those present in both airborne pollutants and gases. Interra Global offers this industry-leading product in sizes 1/8″, 3/16″ and 1/4″. Due to their low abrasion, BASF F-200 allows for reduced dust during transport, loading, service life and dust accumulation that often causes pressure drop pressure drops as well as valve and filter plugging issues associated with dustier products.
F-200 features an optimized pore distribution and high surface area that results in an H2O adsorption capacity of up to 20% by weight, providing for very low effluent specifications and improved cyclic stability & resistance to amines.
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High surface area
BASF F-200 is an activated alumina sphere with a smooth surface, designed to preferentially absorb highly polar molecules. This unique mechanism enables it to efficiently remove degradation acids from transformer oils, lubricating oils and refrigerants as well as any remaining fluorinated hydrocarbon halides and metal ions from crude oil.
F-200’s smooth spheres create a large surface area and tailored pore distribution, which enable it to achieve an outstanding H2O adsorption capacity in diverse stream conditions. When coupled with proper tower design and effective regeneration techniques, F-200 is capable of meeting low H2O effluent specifications without impacting pipeline dew point specifications; in addition, its high crush strength, resistance to amine attack and low abrasion contribute to its long operating lifespan.
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High dynamic H2O adsorption capacity
BASF F-200’s spherical shape facilitates pneumatic loading of towers and minimizes channeling. With high crush strength and resistance to amine attack, this desiccant is ideal for dehydrating compressed air streams that meet strict pressure and temperature specifications. With tailored pore distribution that offers extremely high dynamic H2O absorption capacity and less dust during transport and loading compared to dustier products – which may reduce down-stream valve and filter plugging which may otherwise occur with heavier products.
Aluminium oxide (AO)’s dynamic adsorption capacity is determined by the concentration and type of strong basic sites present, created during preparation by chemically modifying it with alkalis. Studies showed that lithium modified AO had independent adsorption properties from that modified with potassium or sodium but both depended upon how hydrated their alumina substrates were.
BASF F-200 and Sorbead AIR silica gels boast impressive dynamic adsorption capacities, reaching 20% by weight at 7 bar and 95oC saturation temperature. Their high dynamic adsorption capacities enable tower designers to reach very low pressure dew points using effective regeneration.
High crush strength
F-200 Spherical Beads are produced using an innovative manufacturing process that ensures they remain consistently sized, allowing rapid pneumatic loading and dehydration with minimal pressure drop and thus, more effective utilization of desiccant tower.
BASF F-200’s uniform bead size helps prevent adsorbent segregation during pneumatic loading, which may result in channeling and decreased system efficiency. Furthermore, its sphericity decreases the likelihood of downstream valve or filter plugging that often occurs with dustier products.
BASF F-200 stands out from its competition by being both low in abrasion and boasting high crush strength, as well as having the unique capability of absorbing acids found in transformer oils, lubricating oil and refrigerants as well as degradation acids formed during chlorinated and fluorinated hydrocarbon production processes. As it can adsorb these acid sources it makes BASF F-200 the perfect product for drying acid containing gas or liquid streams with its high adsorption capacity and cyclic stability; moreover its resistance to amines makes BASF F-200 ideal technology for large scale carbon capture utilization (CCS). BASF offers comprehensive solutions which support every aspect of CCS applications to deliver cost effective, energy efficiency and longer lifetime solutions resulting in cost saving solutions with greater energy efficiency and cost effectiveness than competing technologies.
High resistance to amines
BASF’s F 200 CO2 Adsorbent is an ideal CO2 Adsorbent for drying applications, boasting low dewpoint capabilities and high dynamic capacity. Furthermore, liquid water stability means lower regeneration temperatures than molecular sieve adsorbents can be utilized.
Interra Global is pleased to offer BASF’s F 200 technology for dehydrating liquids and gases. Engineered from smooth activated alumina spheres designed to specifically absorb highly polar molecules, its uniform size prevents segregation during pneumatic loading to minimize channeling while increasing tower efficiency.
F 200’s high crush strength makes it highly resistant to amine attack, which is known to damage other desiccants. Furthermore, its spherical shape prevents flow and abrasion during transport, loading and service processes, helping avoid dusting as well as downstream valve/filter plugging that occurs with coarser materials.