The invention discloses a vertical radial-flow adsorber. The adsorber comprises an air inlet pipe, a tank body, a spherical crown seal head, an outer cylindrical screen, a middle cylindrical screen, an inner cylindrical screen, a central flow channel distributor, a first adsorbent bed, a second adsorbent bed, an exhaust pipe, a discharge port, two feeding / discharging ports, a manhole and bearing channel steel, wherein the central flow channel distributor is located in the cavity of the inner cylindrical screen and is composed of a hollow cylinder, a porous hollow cylinder and a solid truncated cone with equal diameters. With such a structure, unfavorable influence of the height of the adsorbent beds on uniform distribution of a flow field can be reduced, and the maximum design height of the vertical radial-flow adsorber can be greatly increased. The adsorber designed in the invention has the advantages of small land occupation, low energy consumption, high flow field uniformity and the like under the condition of same treatment capacity.