Physical Adsorption: Experiment, Theory and Applications

Lectures.- Historical perspectives of physical adsorption.- Analysis of physisorption isotherms. Determination of surface area and porosity.- Methodological problems related to the preparation of the surface (outgassing) and to the determination of the adsorption isotherms.- Physical adsorption in microporous solids. Measurements and insight into the interactions.- Theory and simulation of adsorption in micropores.- Intermolecular forces and simulation in pores.- Pore size calculation in the case of different geometrical shapes.- High-pressure physisorption of gases on planar surfaces and in porous materials.- Fundamentals of single-gas and mixed-gas adsorption on heterogeneous solid surfaces..- Fundamentals of diffusion in porous and microporous solids.- Measurement of diffusion in microporous solids by macroscopic methods.- NMR studies of diffusion in porous solids.- 129Xe NMR of physisorbed xenon. Principles.- 129Xe NMR of physisorbed xenon. Applications.- Solid/liquid interaction on hydrophilic/hydrophobic adsorbents : sorption, microcalorimetric and saxs experiments.- Liquid-solid adsorption as the basis for selective separation processes.- Molecular modeling as a complement to experiment; application to the separation of nitrogen and oxygen.- Inorganic membranes : pore structure characterization.- Ceramic membranes : Industrial applications.- Adsorption engineering. Hydrodynamics of PSA Columns.- The Air Liquide compact VisaTM. A view on an innovating adsorber.- Poster Communications.- The molecular potential approach to helium adsorption by carbonaceous subnanospace.- Physical adsorption of hydrocarbons from water solutions on carbons.- Adsorption from binary liquid mixtures on activated charcoal surfaces.- Molecular simulations for characterization and equilibrium adsorption prediction on activated carbon..- Interaction energy of water and methanol with NaZSM-5 from adsorption experiments.- An application of 129Xe-NMR of adsorbed xenon to the study of silica-based catalysts.- Structural characteristics and adsorption properties of microporous aluminoborate oxyfluorides.- Study of the porosity of kelex-impregnated organic polymers using nitrogen adsorption-desorption at 77 K and 129Xe-NMR spectroscopy.- Relations between adsorbent morphology and mechanisms of adsorption in solid-liquid systems.- Mechanism of interaction of organic compounds with polymeric adsorbents.- Wetting on an attractive spherical substrate.- Adsorption, desorption and Indoor climate.- Theoretical description of ion adsorption at the metal oxide/electrolyte solution based on the four layer model.