Application Overview

Porous carbon materials have a vast range of industrial applications. The selective adsorption displayed by activated carbons, in the form of carbon molecular sieves (CMS), is exploited in a number of filtration and separation processes, including air filtration, gas separation, volatile organic compound (VOC) filtration and solvent recovery, and water treatment.

Hiden Isochema products have been used widely to characterise the pore structure and the adsorption properties of activated carbon materials in both academic and industrial research organisations. Most of our products can be used for the characterisation of these materials, with IGA-003 and IGA-200 being particularly powerful for multicomponent gas and vapour sorption measurement.

Examples of published data measured using Hiden Isochema instrumentation can be found in the reference list below.

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IGA-001
IGA-002
IGA-003
IGA-100
IGA-200
HTP1-V

Application Notes

Article 113    Experimental Determination of Multi-Component Vapour Sorption on Active Carbon by Combined Microgravimetry and Dynamic Sampling Mass Spectrometry

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References

[1] Adsorption of Gases and Vapours on Carbon Molecular Sieves
I. P. O’koye, M. J. Benham and K. M. Thomas
Langmuir 13 (1997) 4054-4059

[2] Adsorption of Gases on Carbon Molecular Sieves used for Air Separation. Spherical Adsorptives as Probes for Kinetic Selectivity
C. R. Reid, I. P. O’koye and K. M. Thomas
Langmuir 14 (1998) 2415-2425

[3] Diffusion Barriers in the Kinetics of Water Vapor Adsorption/Desorption on Activated Carbons
A. W. Harding, N. J. Foley, P. R. Norman, D. C. Francis and K. M. Thomas
Langmuir 14 (1998) 3858-3864

[4] Adsorption of Gases on a Carbon Molecular Sieve Used for Air Separation:  Linear Adsorptives as Probes for Kinetic Selectivity
C R Reid and K M Thomas
Langmuir 15 (1999) 3206-3218

[5] Single and Mixed Gas Adsorption Equilibria of Carbon Dioxide/Methane on Activated Carbon
Rick Van der Vaart, Cindy Huiskes, Hans Bosch and Tom Reith
Adsorption, 6 No. 4 (2000) 311-323

[6] Compensation Effect for the Kinetics of Adsorption/Desorption of Gases/Vapors on Microporous Carbon Materials
Ashleigh J Fletcher and K Mark Thomas
Langmuir  16 (2000) 6253-6266

[7] Transport and Sorption of Water in Activated Carbon
L. Cossarutto, T. Zimny, J. Kaczmarczyk, T. Siemieniewska, J. Bimer  and J. V. Weber
Carbon 39 (2001) 2339-2346

[8] Adsorption Kinetics and Size Exclusion Properties of Probe Molecules for the Selective Porosity in a Carbon Molecular Sieve used for Air Separation
C. R. Reid and K. M. Thomas
Journal of Physical Chemistry B  105 (2001) 10619-10629

[9] Multicomponent Vapor Sorption on Active Carbon by Combined Microgravimetry and Dynamic Sampling Mass Spectrometry
A. J. Fletcher, M. J. Benham and K. M.Thomas 
Journal of Physical Chemistry B  106 (2002) 7474 - 7482

[10] Experimental probes of the molecular hydrogen-carbon nanotube interation
Bhabendra K. Pradhan, Gamini U. Sumanasekera, Kofi W. Adu, Hugo E. Romero, Keith A. Williams, Peter C. Eklund
Physica B  323 (2002) 115-121

[11] Adsorption of Methane and Hydrogen on Mesocarbon Microbeads by Experiments and Molecular Simulation
Xiaohong Shao, Wenchuan Wang, Ruisheng Xue and Zengmin Shen
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108 (2004) 2970-2978

[12] Hydrogen Adsorption on Functionalized Nanoporous Activated Carbons
X.B. Zhao, B. Xiao, A.J. Fletcher, and K.M. Thomas
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109 (2005) 8880-8888

[13] Use of Carbon Fibre Composite Molecular Sieves for Air Separation
Timothy D. Burchell, Omats O. Omatete, Nidia C. Gallego and Frederick S. Baker
Adsorption Science and Technology, 23 No.3 (2005) 175-194 

[14] Kinetic Isotope Effect for H₂ and D₂ Quantum Molecular Sieving in Adsorption/Desorption on Porous Carbon Materials
X. Zhao, S. Villar-Rodil, A. J. Fletcher, K. M. Thomas
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110 (2006) 9947-9955

[15] Adsorption and Desorption Kinetics for Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Vapors on Activated Carbon
A. J. Fletcher, Y. Yüzak, K. M. Thomas
Carbon 44 (2006) 989-1004