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where is the mass of adsorbate adsorbed, is the mass of the adsorbent, is the pressure of adsorbate (this can be changed to concentration if investigating solution rather than gas), and and are empirical constants for each adsorbent–adsorbate pair at a given temperature.
The adsorbent, as indicated in the figure, is assumed to be an ideal solid surface composed of a series of distinct sites capable of binding the adsorbate. The adsorbate binding is treated as a chemical reaction between the adsorbate gaseous molecule A g {\displaystyle A_{\text{g}}} and an empty sorption site S .
Chemisorption is a kind of adsorption which involves a chemical reaction between the surface and the adsorbate. New chemical bonds are generated at the adsorbent surface. Examples include macroscopic phenomena that can be very obvious, like corrosion [clarification needed], and subtler effects associated with heterogeneous catalysis, where the catalyst and reactants are in different pha
Adsorption is the process by which a gas (or solution) phase molecule (the adsorbate) binds to solid (or liquid) surface atoms (the adsorbent). The reverse of adsorption is desorption, the adsorbate splitting from adsorbent. In a reaction facilitated by heterogeneous catalysis, the catalyst is the adsorbent and the reactants are the adsorbate.
An adsorption isotherm is a graph of Γ(P,T) versus partial pressure of the adsorbate(P/P 0) for a given constant temperature, where Γ(P,T) is the number of molecules adsorbed per surface area. [1] As the partial pressure of the adsorbate increases, the number of molecules per area also increases.
The process of gas or liquid which penetrate into the body of adsorbent is commonly known as absorption. IUPAC definition absorption : 1) The process of one material (absorbate) being retained by another (absorbent); this may be the physical solution of a gas, liquid, or solid in a liquid, attachment of molecules of a gas, vapour, liquid, or ...
BET model of multilayer adsorption, that is, a random distribution of sites covered by one, two, three, etc., adsorbate molecules. The concept of the theory is an extension of the Langmuir theory, which is a theory for monolayer molecular adsorption, to multilayer adsorption with the following hypotheses:
K and n are constants for a given adsorbate and adsorbent at a given temperature (from there, the term isotherm needed to avoid significant gas pressure fluctuations due to uncontrolled temperature variations in the case of adsorption experiments of a gas onto a solid phase). K = distribution coefficient n = correction factor