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Predicting multicomponent adsorption: 50 years of the ideal adsorbed solution theory
Author(s) -
Walton Krista S.,
Sholl David S.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.14878
Subject(s) - adsorption , benchmark (surveying) , ideal (ethics) , component (thermodynamics) , sorption , variety (cybernetics) , chemistry , thermodynamics , materials science , chemical engineering , polymer science , computer science , engineering , physics , artificial intelligence , geology , philosophy , geodesy , epistemology
Describing multi‐component adsorption is fundamental to using sorption in any chemical separation. 50 years ago, Myers and Prausnitz made a seminal contribution to characterization and prediction of multi‐component adsorption by introducing Ideal Adsorbed Solution Theory (IAST). Here, we give an overview of IAST, highlighting its continued role as a benchmark method in describing adsorption using illustrative examples from a variety of experimental and molecular modeling studies. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J , 61: 2757–2762, 2015