The invention provides a novel radial flow adsorption tower for pressure swing adsorption, and belongs to the technical field of adsorption tower. The novel radial flow adsorption tower comprises an upper seal head, a lower seal head, a tower cylinder body, an isolation drum and a center pipe, wherein the tower cylinder body, the isolation drum and the center pipe are distributed in a concentric circle way; an annular outer passage is formed between the outer drum wall of the isolation drum and the tower cylinder body, and an annular inner passage is formed between the inner drum wall of the isolation drum and the outer wall of the center pipe; a flow distributing pipe and an air exhaust pipe are arranged at the top part of the interior of the adsorption tower, the flow distributing pipe is used for communicating the center pipe and the annular outer passage, and the air exhaust pipe is connected and communicated with the annular inner passage; air flow hole passages are distributed on a drum body of the isolation drum, and an adsorbent is filled into the drum body. The novel radial flow adsorption tower has the advantages that the raw gas is guided into the annular outer passage by the center pipe passage via the flow distributing pipe, flown into the adsorbent layer in the radial way, and sent into the annular inner passage after adsorbing and separating; the gas flows outside the adsorption tower and in the inner passage to form the U-shaped flowing type, so that the change trends of static pressures in the inner passage and the outer passage are basically the same in the axial flowing direction of gas flow, and the uniform distribution of the gas flow is realized.