Theory of volume filling of micropores applied to the description of methane adsorption on the microporous carbon adsorbent AUK

Methane adsorption on the microporous carbon adsorbent AUK was calculated on the basis of Dubinin’s theory of volume filling of micropores in the temperature range 177.7—393 K and at pressures from 1 Pa to 6 MPa. The calculated isotherms of absolute adsorption were compared with the isotherms of methane obtained experimentally. Good agreement between the calculated and experimentally measured amounts adsorbed is observed in the area of applicability of the theory at micropore ranging in coverage θ from 0.25 to 0.95. The adsorption isosters were calculated for the same pressure and temperature ranges. The adsorption isosters satisfactorily represent the temperature dependence of the amount of methane adsorbed obtained experimentally. The calculations gave for the thermal coefficient of limiting adsorption a value of 6h_calc = 1.64• 10^-3 K^-1., which exceeds the experimental value by ∼15%.     

Ethane adsorption in slit-shaped micropores: influence of molecule orientation on adsorption capacity

Adsorption of ethane in a slit shaped micropore system has been studied by Monte Carlo molecular simulation by considering this hydrocarbon as a two interacting sites molecule. Ethane adsorption in pore sizes from 0.41 to 1.66 nm was simulated at 303 K. Microscopic characteristics of the adsorbed phase have been studied for pores of different size, comparing two density profiles: the molecule centre of mass profile and the molecular interaction site profile. Averaged angle distribution of molecule positions with respect to the slit plane across the pore width has been also obtained by simulation. These results were related to ethane molecule packing efficiency, which is also related to the adsorption capacity in terms of the adsorbed phase density. Packing efficiency presents an oscillation shape as the result of the adsorbate disorder inside the pore. Pressure influence on the adsorption has been studied by following pore filling by simulation. When pore condensation takes place and for pressures above condensation, fluid-fluid interactions are determinant in molecule disorder observed between the two adsorbed layers.     

Microbial conversion of high-rank coals to methane

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - It has been demonstrated recently that certain bacteria and fungi are capable of directly or indirectly converting low-rank coals into liquid and gaseous...     

Hydrogen adsorption on model adsorbents from the viewpoint of the theory of volumetric filling of micropores

Hydrogen adsorption on model microporous adsorbents with slit-shaped pores was calculated on the basis of Dubinin’s theory of volumetric filling of micropores using the property of linearity of adsorption isosters. Model adsorbents with micropore widths of 0.5, 0.9, and 1.2 nm obtained by the successive exclusion of one, two, and three layers of hexagonal carbon in the crystalline lattice of graphite were used. Hydrogen adsorption was calculated in the structures with single-layer and two-layer carbon walls at temperatures 20, 33, 77, 200, 300, and 400 K and pressures up to 20 MPa. The maximal hydrogen desorption for the AU structure (1:3) with the pressure drop from 20 to 0.1 MPa was 8 wt.% at 200K. The parameters of the porous adsorbent structure were calculated.     

甲烷在活性炭上吸附平衡模型的研究

比较吸附模型分析甲烷在活性炭上吸附平衡的适用性,为吸附式天然气(ANG)的工程应用提供准确的预测模型。基于在温度268.15～338.15 K、压力0～12.5 MPa测试的甲烷在Ajax活性炭上的吸附平衡数据,选择Langmuir、Langmuir-Freundlich和Toth方程,应用非线性回归拟合方程参数后,确定绝对吸附量和甲烷吸附相态,并比较方程在不同压力区域内的预测精度。结果表明,甲烷吸附相密度随平衡温度和压力变化;由绝对吸附量确定的甲烷在Ajax活性炭上的平均等量吸附热为15.72 kJ/mol,小于由过剩吸附量的标绘结果;Langmuir、Langmuir-Freundlich和Toth方程预测结果在0～0.025 MPa的累积相对误差为6.449 8%、7.918 4%和0.910 0%,在1～10 MPa为0.491 1%、0.161 3%和0.369 4%。Toth方程在整个压力范围内的预测结果最为准确,但Langmuir-Freundlich方程在较高压力区域内具有较高的预测精度。     

Energetics of methane adsorption on microporous activated carbons

The influence of microporous carbon surface oxidation on energetics of methane adsorption at 308 K is discussed. Obtained adsorption heats and integral molar entropies of the adsorbate show that microporous carbon surface oxidation changes the methane adsorption process. This is probably resulted by the existence of an endothermic effect during adsorption in oxidized carbon micropores.     

Clathrate-formation mediated adsorption of methane on Cu-complex crystals

We measured adsorption and desorption isotherms of methane on [Cu(4, 4'-bipyridine)2(BF4)2] (LPC) at 258, 273, and 303 K. Adsorption proceeds almost vertically at a definite pressure, which is named gate pressure. The lower the measurement temperature, the smaller the gate pressure. The temperature dependence of the gate pressure is expressed by the Clapeyron-Clausius equation, giving a thermodynamic evidence on the clathrate formation between the Cu complex and methane.     

Selective generation of organic aggregates included within metal-organic micropores through vapor adsorption

The ethanol vapor adsorption behavior and the inclusion crystal structure of a 1D-transformable coordination polymer host were characterized. The adsorption jump was observed during phase transition or two-phase equilibrium with abnormal adsorption enthalpy caused by the nature of "mass induced phase transition." The included ethanol guests selectively form O-H...O hydrogen bonded pairs inside channels, suggesting selective construction of a specific cluster/aggregate in pores under control of thermodynamic factors and cooperative intermolecular interactions among the guest and channel surface.     

Characterization of porosity in vapor-deposited amorphous solid water from methane adsorption

We have characterized the porosity of vapor-deposited amorphous solid water (ice) films deposited at 30-40 K using several complementary techniques such as quartz crystal microgravimetry, UV-visible interferometry, and infrared reflectance spectrometry in tandem with methane adsorption. The results, inferred from the gas adsorption isotherms, reveal the existence of microporosity in all vapor-deposited films condensed from both diffuse and collimated water vapor sources. Films deposited from a diffuse source show a step in the isotherms and much less adsorption at low pressures than films deposited from a collimated source with the difference increasing with film thickness. Ice films deposited from a collimated vapor source at 77 degrees incidence are mesoporous, in addition to having micropores. Remarkably, mesoporosity is retained upon warming to temperatures as high as 140 K where the ice crystallized. The binding energy distribution for methane adsorption in the micropores of ice films deposited from a collimated source peaks at approximately 0.083 eV for deposition at normal incidence and at approximately 0.077 eV for deposition at >45 degrees incidence. For microporous ice, the intensity of the infrared bands due to methane molecules on dangling OH bonds on pore surfaces increases linearly with methane uptake, up to saturation adsorption. This shows that the multilayer condensation of methane does not occur inside the micropores. Rather, filling of the core volume results from coating the pore walls with the first layer of methane, indicating pore widths below a few molecular diameters. For ice deposited at 77 degrees incidence, the increase in intensity of the dangling bond absorptions modified by methane adsorption departs from linearity at large uptakes.     

Monitoring adsorption on small particles

A review on the application of photoelectron emission from small particles suspended in a gas to monitor the adsorption properties and to detect adsorbates on the particles is given. The relation between surface coverage with an adsorbate and the shift in photothreshold and photoelectric yield is demonstrated by two examples: The adsorption of O₂ on silver particles and of perylene on carbon particles. A third example concerns the detection of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) on particles arising from combustions.     

Metal-organic framework with rationally tuned micropores for selective adsorption of water over methanol

A microporous metal-organic framework 1, Cu(R-GLA-Me)(4,4'-Bipy) 0.5.0.55H 2O (R-GLA-Me = R-2-methylglutarate, 4,4'-Bipy = 4,4'-bipyridine), with a primitive cubic net was synthesized and characterized. With pores of about 2.8 x 3.6 A, the activated 1a exhibits exclusive adsorption of water over methanol in a binary water-methanol (1:1) liquid mixture.     

Photoinduced adsorption of hydrogen and methane on gamma-alumina. the photoinduced chesorluminescence (PhICL) effect

Adsorption of hydrogen and methane on a preirradiated surface of gamma-Al2O3 produces an afterglow, which has been described as a photoinduced chesorluminescence (PhICL), whose spectral features identify with the intrinsic photoluminescence of alumina. The emission spectrum consists of at least four overlapping single emission bands. For methane adsorption, the PhICL phenomenon is seen only if the solid is preirradiated in the presence of oxygen. Emission decay kinetics of the PhICL effect for gamma-Al2O3 reveal two wavelength regimes: a short wavelength regime at lambda = 300-370 nm (decay time tau = 1.1 +/- 0.2 s; signal width = 2.8 s), and a longer wavelength regime at lambda = 380-700 nm (decay time tau = 2.1 +/- 0.1 s; signal width = 4.3 s). A model is proposed in which there exist two different emission centers and, thus, two different pathways for emission decay. In the first, emission originates with electron trapping by such deep energy traps as anion vacancies {e- + Va --> F+ + hv1} to yield electron F-type color centers, whereas in the second, emission originates from electron/trapped hole recombination {e- + Os*- --> Os2- + hv2}. The first common step of the pathways is homolytic dissociative chemisorption of hydrogen and methane upon interaction with surface-active hole centers Os*-, produced upon preirradiation of alumina, to give atomic hydrogen H* and methyl radicals CH3*. Thermoprogrammed desorption spectra of photoadsorbed or postsorbed oxygen show that adsorbed oxygen interacts with atomic hydrogen and methyl radicals. The products of thermodesorption were H2O for hydrogen and H2O, CO2, and CH3CH3 for methane. The Solonitsyn memory effect coefficient was also evaluated for oxygen photoadsorption.     

Sensing the physicochemical nature of he and ne in micropores by adsorption measurements

He and Ne in contact with molecular sieves in the form of crystalline A zeolites and amorphous carbon molecular sieves fibers (CMSF) were studied by adsorption measurements. Classification of the effective enclosure of zeolitic apertures and of graphitic constrictions, as determined by recent temperature-programmed desorption mass spectrometry (TPD-MS) studies of adsorption of He and Ne onto these materials, was utilized in making a prudent choice of samples and experimental conditions. In view of the former TPD information, the behaviors of adsorption and volumetric measurements reported herein are straightforwardly interpreted. The combined TPD, adsorption isotherms, and dead volume data deepen the understanding of the physicochemical nature of adsorbed gas, where gas adsorption in the vicinity of pore constrictions and/or apertures as well as on the inner surface areas of pores and/or cages could be resolved. Previous conclusions that the huge activation energies measured for Ne/CMSF at high temperatures are unlikely to characterize chemical desorption but reflect those required for overcoming the barrier of effectively constricted apertures were confirmed by the volumetric data presented here. At 77 K, considerable He adsorption was observed in the porous solids and found to be responsible for abnormal deduced values of dead volumes. The occurrence of significant adsorption of He onto A zeolites and CMSF at 77 K warrants the realization that in cases concerning porous materials, volumetrically deduced quantities should not be taken for granted, but should be carefully considered and uniquely interpreted in relation to the specific experimental conditions under which they are taken.     

Hydrogen adsorption on a carbon adsorbent with slitlike micropores below and above the critical temperature

Hydrogen adsorption is calculated for model microporous adsorbents with slitlike micropore widths of 0.538, 0.878, and 1.218 nm obtained by the consecutive exclusion of one, two, and three layers of hexagonal carbon from graphite structure taken as a model cell. Calculations are performed using the basic concepts of the theory of volume filling of micropores, Dubinin-Radushkevich equation, and linear adsorption isosteres. For structures with one-and two-layer carbon walls, the calculation is carried out at temperatures of 20, 33, 77, 200, 300, and 400 K and pressures up to 20 MPa. For AC3:5 structure, the maximum hydrogen adsorption amounts to 7.9 wt % at 20 MPa and 300 K. The parameters of adsorbent porous structure are established. Hydrogen adsorption is shown to be governed by the capacity and the energy of adsorption.     

Discrete site model for methane adsorption on microporous adsorbents

A statistical thermodynamic treatment of adsorption on zeolites assuming quasiindependent sites has been applied to methane adsorption on the zeolite NaX and the carbon adsorbent PAU-10 from polyvinylidenechloride in the pressure range 0.1–10⁷ Pa and 120–410 K. The relation between the isosteric adsorption heats and the magnitude of adsorption at different temperatures was calculated for both adsorption systems. A sharp decrease in these heats was observed at high adsorption values up to and in the supercritical temperature range.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 974–978, May, 1990.The authors would like to thank V. A. Bakaev for discussions about this work.     

The effect of electrolyte on ionic surfactant adsorption

For submicellar solutions of ionic surfactants rigorous thermodynamic expressions are presented which show that the surfactant adsorption will not depend on electrolyte concentration c₃ at constant surfactant concentration c₁, if there is no corresponding dependence on c₁ at constant c₃. Results which indicate otherwise are inconsistent with thermodynamics.