Determination of the quasi-saturated vapor pressure of supercritical gases in the adsorption potential theory application.
Equilibrium data on supercritical N(2) and CH(4) adsorption on K02 activated carbon are presented in the temperature range 273-333 K and the pressure range 0-12 MPa. The adsorption potential theory was adopted to predict the adsorption equilibria of N(2) and CH(4) in the whole range utilizing a single experimental isotherm. The methods in literatures for calculating the quasi-saturated vapor pressure and the adsorbate density of supercritical gases have been investigated in detail. It is demonstrated that the predicting accuracy is considerably more sensitive to the quasi-saturated vapor pressure than to the adsorbate density. Moreover, for different adsorbates, the appropriate approach to the important quasi-saturated vapor pressure is various in the same experimental range. A new viewpoint, based on the relationship between the research temperature ranges and the critical temperatures of adsorbates, was proposed to determine the exact method for the quasi-saturated vapor pressure in the application of the adsorption potential theory.
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Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, People's Republic of China. liming_li@163.com
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