A self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (APSD) of BPL, Norit and AX-21 activated carbon
Accessible volume, geometrical area and accessible pore size distribution are the fundamental structural parameters in the characterization of porous solids. We provide a novel "inverse" procedure, which is based on the mass balance and an MC optimization scheme, to determine these paramet...
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| author | Herrera, L. Fan, Chunyan Nguyen, V. Do, D. Horikawa, T. Nicholson, D. |
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| description | Accessible volume, geometrical area and accessible pore size distribution are the fundamental structural parameters in the characterization of porous solids. We provide a novel "inverse" procedure, which is based on the mass balance and an MC optimization scheme, to determine these parameters from the analysis of experimental adsorption isotherms for a number of commonly used activated carbons: BPL, AX-21 and Norit. Our results, based on a kernel of model pores generated from GCMC simulations, are compared with, and shown to be different from, the results obtained from the conventional method. We show that the discrepancies arise from an incorrect evaluation of both micropore and mesopore sizes. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-552632017-09-13T16:10:40Z A self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (APSD) of BPL, Norit and AX-21 activated carbon Herrera, L. Fan, Chunyan Nguyen, V. Do, D. Horikawa, T. Nicholson, D. Accessible volume, geometrical area and accessible pore size distribution are the fundamental structural parameters in the characterization of porous solids. We provide a novel "inverse" procedure, which is based on the mass balance and an MC optimization scheme, to determine these parameters from the analysis of experimental adsorption isotherms for a number of commonly used activated carbons: BPL, AX-21 and Norit. Our results, based on a kernel of model pores generated from GCMC simulations, are compared with, and shown to be different from, the results obtained from the conventional method. We show that the discrepancies arise from an incorrect evaluation of both micropore and mesopore sizes. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55263 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.09.004 Pergamon restricted |
| spellingShingle | Herrera, L. Fan, Chunyan Nguyen, V. Do, D. Horikawa, T. Nicholson, D. A self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (APSD) of BPL, Norit and AX-21 activated carbon |
| title | A self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (APSD) of BPL, Norit and AX-21 activated carbon |
| title_full | A self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (APSD) of BPL, Norit and AX-21 activated carbon |
| title_fullStr | A self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (APSD) of BPL, Norit and AX-21 activated carbon |
| title_full_unstemmed | A self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (APSD) of BPL, Norit and AX-21 activated carbon |
| title_short | A self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (APSD) of BPL, Norit and AX-21 activated carbon |
| title_sort | self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (apsd) of bpl, norit and ax-21 activated carbon |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55263 |