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Thermodynamics of multicomponent reactive nonuniform systems (adsorption)
Author(s) -
Brunet Jean
Publication year - 1972
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.690180132
Subject(s) - adsorption , formalism (music) , thermodynamics , chemistry , interface (matter) , extension (predicate logic) , statistical physics , mechanics , materials science , physics , computer science , art , musical , visual arts , gibbs isotherm , programming language
Certain systems are characterized by a nonuniform distribution of matter in space. Examples of such systems are liquid‐fluid ( 1 to 3 ) and the solid‐fluid interfaces ( 4 ). It is the main purpose of this paper to extend thethermodynamics of nonuniform systems to multicomponent reactive mixtures in the presence of an external field and to apply the above formalism to physical adsorption. This amounts to an extension of Hart's original analysis ( 5 to 7 ) as well as an improved analysis of the solid‐fluid interface presented recently by Metiu and Ruckensteein ( 8 ). Furthermore, various approximate solutions for the solid‐fluid interface are considered, all of which reduce properly to known results.