A general mathematical model for supercritical CO2 adsorption on activated carbon have been developed. Adsorption curves obtained with a laboratory plant (adsorber of 10 mL) have been adjusted with this model and the results have been extrapolated to adjust the breakthrough curves obtained with a pilot plant (adsorber of 1L). The proposed model is general and takes into account equilibrium (ads...

We report a systematic experimental investigation of the mechanism of desorption of chlorobenzene molecules from the Si(111)-(7 x 7) surface induced by the STM at room temperature. We measure the desorption probability as a function of both tunneling current and a wide range of sample bias voltages between -3 V and +4 V. The results exclude field desorption, thermally induced desorption, and me...

The lack of a sensitive immunoassay for quantitating serum prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) hinders its clinical utility as a diagnostic/prognostic biomarker. An innovative protein biochip immunoassay was used to quantitate and compare serum PSMA levels in healthy men and patients with either benign or malignant prostate disease. PSMA was captured from serum by anti-PSMA antibody bound...

The dynamics of oligomer desorption from surfaces has been studied by measuring the desorption kinetics of a set of straight chain alkanes [ H(CH2)(n)H, with n = 5 to 60] from the surface of single crystalline graphite. Desorption is observed to be a first-order process and the preexponent of the desorption rate constant has a value nu = 10(19.6+/-0.5) sec(-1) and is independent of the oligomer...

Temperature programmed desorption TPD has been used to investigate the behavior of cyclohexane C6H12 on Zr 0001 and the effects of 500 eV electron bombardment on its desorption characteristics. Following adsorption at 150 K, molecular desorption above 600 K suggests exceptionally strong interaction between C6H12 and Zr 0001 . These high-temperature desorption features shift to higher temperatur...

We report STM-induced desorption of H from Sis100d-Hs2 3 1d at negative sample bias. The desorption rate exhibits a power-law dependence on current and a maximum desorption rate at 27 V. The desorption is explained by vibrational heating of H due to inelastic scattering of tunneling holes with the Si-H 5s hole resonance. The dependence of desorption rate on current and bias is analyzed using a ...

There are numerous indications that adsorbed particles on a surface do not desorb statistically, but that their spatial distribution is important. Evidence almost exclusively comes from temperature-programmed desorption, the standard method for measuring desorption rates. However, this method, as a kinetics experiment, cannot uniquely prove an atomic mechanism. Here we report a low-energy elect...

We investigated bioavailability, as measured by the biota-sediment accumulation factor (BSAF), of reversibly sorbed and desorption-resistant phenanthrene to the deposit-feeding freshwater tubificid oligochaete Ilyodrilus templetoni. Desorption-resistant, phenanthrene-contaminated sediments were prepared by a sequential batch desorption method by washing with an isopropanol solution. The BSAFs a...

canola is a prominent oil seed crop with a very high production potential in iran and the production process of which needs to be optimized. drying is an important part of the processing of the crop with emc values playing a vital role in the process. in this research adsorption and desorption experiments were conducted in an environmental chamber for licord variety of canola. the thin layer ex...