0000000000136430
AUTHOR
Piotr Staszczuk
Fast Measurements of Adsorption on Porous Materials Using Jäntti's Method
In 1972, Jäntti et al. formulated a method to shorten the time taken for adsorption measurements. We suggested at the Kiev International Conference on Vacuum Microbalance Techniques (1999) that the applicability of this method could be widened by considering a number of parallel adsorptions. There is, however, a more complicated but perhaps more interesting variant possible when extra mass transport is considered to occur in series. Such an application could involve adsorption within a porous structure where diffusion must be considered as a process occurring in series with adsorption on the surface.
Extension of the Applicability of Jäntti's Method to the Fast Calculation of Desorption Data
The time for sorption measurements may be reduced substantially by measuring several values at short time intervals at the beginning of a kinetic curve and extrapolating them to the equilibrium value. The method used by Jäntti for simple adsorption processes has been extended to complicated processes described by a second-order differential equation. A simulated example is provided.
Gravimetric measurement of water vapour sorption, moisture and dry mass
The gravimetric measurement of the moisture content of solids is discussed in comparison to other usual methods. Results of measurements of silica gel are reported. Furthermore, we inform on standardisation work.