Carbon molecular sieves (CMS) are a type of novel adsorbent developed in the 1970s and serve as an excellent non-polar carbon-based material.
Used for air separation to enrich nitrogen, CMS-based systems employ a nitrogen generation process that operates at ambient temperature and low pressure. Compared to traditional cryogenic, high-pressure nitrogen generation methods, this approach offers advantages such as lower investment costs, faster nitrogen production rates, and reduced nitrogen costs. Consequently,
CMS serves as the adsorbent of choice for nitrogen enrichment via Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) in industrial applications.
The nitrogen produced in this manner finds widespread application across various sectors, including the chemical, oil and gas, electronics, food, coal, pharmaceutical, and cable industries, as well as in metal heat treatment, transportation, and storage.