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Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide on Activated Carbon
Bo Guo;Liping Chang;Kechang Xie
2006, 15(3):
223-229.
DOI:
The adsorption of CO2 on a raw activated carbon A and three modified activated carbon
samples B, C, and D at temperatures ranging from 303 to 333 K and the thermodynamics of adsorption
have been investigated using a vacuum adsorption apparatus in order to obtain more information about the
effect of CO2 on removal of organic sulfur-containing compounds in industrial gases. The active ingredients
impregnated in the carbon samples show significant influence on the adsorption for CO2 and its volumes
adsorbed on modified carbon samples B, C, and D are all larger than that on the raw carbon sample A.
On the other hand, the physical parameters such as surface area, pore volume, and micropore volume
of carbon samples show no influence on the adsorbed amount of CO2. The Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-
R) equation was the best model for fitting the adsorption data on carbon samples A and B, while the
Freundlich equation was the best fit for the adsorption on carbon samples C and D. The isosteric heats of
adsorption on carbon samples A, B, C, and D derived from the adsorption isotherms using the Clapeyron
equation decreased slightly increasing surface loading. The heat of adsorption lay between 10.5 and 28.4
kJ/mol, with the carbon sample D having the highest value at all surface coverages that were studied. The
observed entropy change associated with the adsorption for the carbon samples A, B, and C (above the
surface coverage of 7 ml/g) was lower than the theoretical value for mobile adsorption. However, it was
higher than the theoretical value for mobile adsorption but lower than the theoretical value for localized
adsorption for carbon sample D.
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