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Adsorption of ethyl alcohol on silica gel
Author(s) -
Masamune Shinobu,
Smith J. M.
Publication year - 1965
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.690110112
Subject(s) - adsorption , thermal diffusivity , diffusion , chemistry , silica gel , volume (thermodynamics) , alcohol , work (physics) , particle (ecology) , thermodynamics , chromatography , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , physics , oceanography , engineering , geology
This work utilizes the developments of the foregoing paper ( 10 ) to analyze adsorption data, in the form of breakthrough curves, for ethyl alcohol on silica gel at 90° to 155°C. It was found that for the smallest particle size, and in the lower part of the temperature range, the overall rate was determined by the surface adsorption process. At other conditions intraparticle diffusion was also a significant resistance in the overall process. The theoretical breakthrough curves agreed well with the experimental ones, so that the surface rate constant and diffusivity could be calculated. Analysis of the diffusivity results showed that surface migration on the pore walls was the predominant contribution rather than gas‐phase diffusion in the pore volume.