This paper presents a modular approach to motion control using a microconlroller-based stepper motor driver. As an application of the driver, an inexpensive and portable one-dimensional robot was built to automate an existing experimental setup for measurement of adsorption isotherms using the McBain-Bakr technique. Automatic recording of position versus time yields data for the sludy of adsorp...

Abstract: Aim The aim of the present study was to evaluate potential soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) sorption three natural P adsorbents (Luvisol, Planosol, and Scheelite tailing) from Brazil’s semiarid region. Methods adsorption tests were done under pH 8 conditions with Lanthanum-Modified Bentonite (LMB). effect humic substances on SRP also tested. For this, Luvisol Planosol incinerated red...

The effect of anharmonicity on the adsorption of CO molecules on the Ni(111) surface has been investigated. The DFT calculations are used to obtain the effective adsorption potential of the CO molecule on the Ni(111) surface. First, using an appropriate slab model, the geometry of adsorption system corresponding to hcp, fcc, bridge, and on-top sites with p(2 x 2) arrangement and coverage of 0.2...

Pillar substitution in a long-known metal-organic material with saturated metal centres, [Cu(bipy)(2)(SiF(6))](n), has afforded the first crystallographically characterized porous materials based upon TiF(6)(2-) and SnF(6)(2-) anions as pillars. Gas adsorption studies revealed similar surface areas and adsorption isotherms but enhanced selectivity towards CO(2)vs. CH(4) and N(2).

We develop a model for solute transport in porous media, which takes into account equilibrium and non-equilibrium multiple-site adsorption. Binary ion exchange is included. Adsorption rate formulations and their isotherms are reviewed and their mathematical properties investigated. This forms the basis of the study of travelling wave solutions in the second part of the paper.

Bundle morphology and adsorptive contributions from nanotubes and impurities are studied both experimentally and by simulation using a computer-aided methodology, which employs a small physisorbed probe molecule to explore the porosity of nanotube samples. Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation of nitrogen adsorption on localized sites of a bundle is carried out to predict adsorption in its acc...

Adsorption equilibrium of fructose, glucose and sucrose was evaluated on sulfonated poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene) cation-exchange resins. Two types of resins were used: potassium (K+) gel-type and sodium (Na+) macroporous resins. Influence of the cation and effect of the resin structure on adsorption were studied. The adsorption isotherms were determined by the static method in batch mode for...

In the framework of development green analytical chemistry, a silica gel (SG) coated with semi-penetrating network based on partially biosourced poly(ethersulfone) is studied for greener extraction process aromatic organic pollutants. An optimized composition (80% linear polymer (LP): isosorbide-based and 20% cross-linking agent (XP) type bismaleimide) leads to total adsorption selected polluta...

The adsorption of fluorine ions from aqueous solutions by oxihydroxides of aluminum was studied. The equilibrium sorption was explained by using the Lengmuire, Freundlich, Bet and Redlich-Peterson models of isotherms. The results obtained allow one to conclude that the mathematical model of adsorption Freundlich is the best for describing the measured experimental data, which testifies to the h...

The present work investigates the equilibrium adsorption of Chrysene on multi-walled carbon nanotubes at 293, 303 and 313°K, and determines the equilibrium adsorption isotherms and thermodynamic parameters (ΔG, ΔH and ΔS). The values of ΔH and ΔG suggested that the adsorption of Chrysene onto MWCNTs was endothermic and nonspontaneous.The experimental data were analyzed using Langmuir, Freundlic...