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A simple, inexpensive method of inerting transport containers, particularly for goods which easily spoil in the air, such as foodstuffs, plants and flowers, by a gas which contains nitrogen and a predetermined concentration of up to about 5 vol. % oxygen is made possible in the manner that air is co

A simple, inexpensive method of inerting transport containers, particularly for goods which easily spoil in the air, such as foodstuffs, plants and flowers, by a gas which contains nitrogen and a predetermined concentration of up to about 5 vol. % oxygen is made possible in the manner that air is conducted, in a cyclic pressure-change adsorption process, through a layer of adsorbent in which the oxygen in the air is adsorbed on the adsorbent in each case during an adsorption step at a pressure above atmospheric pressure and a nitrogen-rich gaseous mixture still containing oxygen which discharges at the end of the layer of adsorbent is conducted into the transport container to be inerted, and the adsorbed oxygen of the air is desorbed in each case during the desorption steps by reducing the pressure of the adsorbent and, finally, the next adsorption step is started, a multiple of the predetermined quantity of air necessary to maintain the desired oxygen content flowing in the adsorption steps through the layer of adsorbent in a first inerting phase and one time said the quantity of air flowing through it in a second inerting phase.

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A method of inerting transport containers comprising the steps of inerting transport containers with a gas which contains nitrogen and a predetermined concentration of up to about 5 vol. % oxygen in a cyclic pressure-change adsorption process comprising from time to time adsorbing oxygen in air on a

A method of inerting transport containers comprising the steps of inerting transport containers with a gas which contains nitrogen and a predetermined concentration of up to about 5 vol. % oxygen in a cyclic pressure-change adsorption process comprising from time to time adsorbing oxygen in air on an adsorbent by conducting the air through a layer of the absorbent in which the oxygen in the air is adsorbed on the adsorbent at a pressure above atmospheric pressure and conducting a nitrogen-rich gaseous mixture still containing oxygen which discharges at the end of the layer of adsorbent into the transport container to be inerted, desorbing the adsorbed oxygen from the air from the adsorbent by reduction of the pressure and, starting a next adsorption step comprising a first inerting phase with a multiple of predetermined amount of air necessary to maintain a desired oxygen concentration flowing through the layer of adsorbent and a second inerting phase with one time said amount of air flowing through the layer of adsorbent.