title: Automated Monitoring of the Establishment of the Adsorption Equilibrium: Adsorption of Polyethylene from 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene onto a Zeolite at Temperature 140 degrees C.
abstract: The automated procedure for the monitoring of the adsorption process in the solute-sorbent-solvent system has been elaborated. It uses commercially available instrument CRYSTAF model 200. The application of CRYSTAF enabled monitoring of adsorption of linear polyethylene with weight average molar masses of 2, 14, and 53 kg/mol from 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene onto zeolite SH-300 at temperature as high as 140 degrees C. It is the authors' understanding that this is the first demonstration of an adsorption isotherms for polyethylene. The measurement with the CRYSTAF instrument reduces manual manipulations with dangerous solvents at high temperature and enables automated long-time monitoring of the concentration of the solute in an adsorption system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Polymer Analysis, German Institute for Polymers, Schlossgartenstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany.
authors.forename: Tibor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Macko
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brüll
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brinkmann
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pasch
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