Hollow Fiber Sorbents for Desulfurization of Natural Gas - Industrial

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Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2010, 49, 12038–12050

Hollow Fiber Sorbents for Desulfurization of Natural Gas Dhaval A. Bhandari, Naoki Bessho, and William J. Koros* School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 778 Atlantic DriVe, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100

Pipeline natural gas is the primary fuel of choice for distributed fuel cell-based applications due to its welldeveloped infrastructure. The concentration of sulfur in odorized pipeline natural gas is about 30 ppm, with the acceptable level being