TY - JOUR
T1 - A self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (APSD) of BPL, Norit and AX-21 activated carbon
AU - Herrera Diaz, Luis
AU - Fan, Chunyan
AU - Nguyen, Tuong Vi B
AU - Do, Duong
AU - Horikawa, T.
AU - Nicholson, D.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.09.004
DO - 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.09.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80055078201
SN - 0008-6223
VL - 50
SP - 500
EP - 509
JO - Carbon
JF - Carbon
IS - 2
ER -