Mmk. Salem et al., THERMODYNAMICS OF HIGH-PRESSURE ADSORPTION OF ARGON, NITROGEN, AND METHANE ON MICROPOROUS ADSORBENTS, Langmuir, 14(12), 1998, pp. 3376-3389
Adsorption equilibria of argon, nitrogen, and methane on the 13X molec
ular sieve and the AS activated carbon were measured at five temperatu
res over a nide pressure range from 0.1 to 20 MPa using a microbalance
. From experimental adsorption isotherms, which are excess functions,
the absolute isotherms were calculated using equations of state for a
real gas phase. Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations and density fu
nctional theory calculations were carried out in order to explain spec
ific features of the resulting isotherms. Different thermodynamic func
tions evaluated from the excess and absolute adsorption isotherms were
analyzed over a wide pressure range at the average temperature of the
range studied.