Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
613636 Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2006 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider a model for adsorption of a simple fluid in disordered polydisperse adsorbents. The fluid consists of hard sphere particles. On the other hand, the adsorbents of this study are modeled as a collection of hard spheres with their diameter obeying a certain distribution function. Our focus is in the evaluation of the chemical potential of the fluid immersed in such a polydisperse material. It permits us to obtain porosity and pore size distribution for the adsorbent, as well as a set of adsorption isotherms. The latter have been calculated theoretically and by grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. We observe that the width of assumed polydispersity distribution affects all the properties of the system. Nevertheless, the effect of matrix packing is dominant in determining adsorption for this class of models. We are convinced that the matrix structures generated via more sophisticated algorithms would exhibit stronger effects of polydispersity on the entire set of properties of adsorbed simple fluids.

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