We discuss the thermodynamics of physical adsorption of gases in porous solids. The measurement of the amount of gas adsorbed in a solid requires specialized volumetric and gravimetric techniques based upon the concept of the surface excess. Excess adsorption isotherms provide thermodynamic information about the gas-solid system but are difficult to interpret at high pressure because of peculia...

Abstract: Chromatographic measurements were made for the adsorption of benzene, toluene and m-xylene on molecular sieving carbon (MSC) in a supercritical fluid CO2 mixed with organics. A supercritical chromatograph packed with MSC was used to detect pulse responses of the organics. Adsorption equilibria and adsorption dynamic parameters for organics were obtained by moment analysis of the respo...

The prediction of multicomponent adsorption equilibria from single-component data is one of the most challenging and important problems in adsorption. The chief obstacle to progress is a scarcity of accurate and consistent experimental data o®er a wide range of temperature and loading for testing theories. Se®eral binaries and one ternary system ( ) on two types of zeolites silicalite and fauja...