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Cellulose materials contain structural defects, pores and capillaries, which affect the physical adsorption of various substances absorption of liquids diffusion and permeability of gases, vapors, and liquids mechanical and some other properties. Investigations have shown that pores between elementary fibrils have diameter about 1.5-2 nm (loelovich et al., 1988]. Diameter of pores and capillaries between microfibrillar bundles can be in the range from 2 to 20 nm (Papkov et al., 1976]. Cell wall of natural cellulose fibers has mesopores with diameter from 40 to 100 nm (Segeeva, 1972]. Samples of paper and paperboard contain also macropores with diameter above 100 nm (loelovich et al., 1988]. 

Different methods can used to study the pore structure of cellulose materials densimetry, mercury porosimetry, adsorption of inert gases and vapors, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS], etc. 

A general characteristic of the porous structure of cellulose materials is porosity  

The porosity value can be from 0.05 for non-porous artificial cellulose films to 0.95 for the cotton wool. Various kinds of paper and paperboard have porosity in the range 0.5-0.7. 

Mercury porosimetry (MP) is an extremely useful technique to characterize pore structure of materials (Giesche, 2006). This method measures an average diameter of open pores and its distribution, total volume of pores, specific surface, density, etc. Limitation of this method is that high pressures can distort the actual pore structure. Besides it does not give the actual size of pores or capillaries, but equivalent diameter of model cylindrical pores. Closed pores are inaccessible to mercury and cannot be studied. 

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For the same reaction in a pellet of finely porous structure, where Knudsen diffusion controls, the appropriate dynamical equations sre (12.20) and (12.21) if we once more adopt approximations which are a consequence of Che large size of K. These again have a dimensionless form, which may be written... 

A separation method in which a mixture passes through a bed of porous particles, with smaller particles taking longer to pass through the bed due to their ability to move into the porous structure. 

SI units stands for Systeme International d Unites. These are the internationally agreed on units for measurements, (p. 12) size-exclusion chromatography a separation method in which a mixture passes through a bed of porous particles, with smaller particles taking longer to pass through the bed due to their ability to move into the porous structure, (p. 206)... 

Washing in a continuous decanter is fairlv effective on solid particles larger than 80 jlrn (200 mesh), provided the particles are reasonably uniform in size with porous structure, Othenvise, the vv ash tlovvvs across the cake surface with little penetration because the pores at the cake surface are plugged bv fines. Rinsing efficiency, the proportion of soluble impurities displaced from the solids, is in the range of 50 to 80... 

Membrane Porosity Separation membranes run a gamut of porosity (see Fig. 22-48). Polymeric and metallic gas separation membranes, electrodialysis membranes, pervaporation membranes, and reverse osmosis membranes are nonporous, although there is hnger-ing controversy over the nonporosity of the latter. Porous membranes are used for microfiltration and ultrafiltratiou. Nanofiltration membranes are probably charged porous structures. 

Catalytic A catalytic-membrane reactor is a combination heterogeneous catalyst and permselective membrane that promotes a reaction, allowing one component to permeate. Many of the reactions studied involve H9. Membranes are metal (Pd, Ag), nonporous metal oxides, and porous structures of ceran iic and glass. Falconer, Noble, and Speriy [in Noble and Stern (eds.), op. cit., pp. 669-709] review status and potential developments. 

Information on the morphology of the nanohybrid sorbents also was revealed with SEM analysis. Dispersed spherical polymer-silica particles with a diameter of 0.3-5 pm were observed. Every particle, in one s turn, is a porous material with size of pores to 200 nm and spherical particles from 100 nm to 500 nm. Therefore, the obtained samples were demonstrated to form a nanometer - scale porous structure. 

Daley, M. A., Tandon, D., Economy, J. and Hippo, E. J., Elucidating the porous structure of activated carbon fibers using direct and indirect methods. Carbon, 1996,34(10), 1191 1200. 

Adsorbents, and activated carbon in particular, are typically characterized by a highly porous structure. Adsorbents with the highest adsorption capacity for gasoline or fuel vapors have a large pore volume associated with pore diameters on the order of 50 Angstroms or less. When adsorption occurs in these pores, the process is comparable to condensation in which the pores become filled with hquid adsorbate. Fig. 5 depicts the adsorption process, including transfer of adsorbate molecules through the bulk gas phase to the surface of the solid, and diffusion onto internal surfaces of the adsorbent and into the pores. 

Frit A porous structure that breaks an airstream entering a solution into small bubbles, maximizing the surface area of air in contact with the solution and... 

The properties of flexible polymer chains moving in porous structures, that is, in structures with geometric constraints such as tubes or slits, apart from their Tclevance for various applications such as filtration, gel permeation chromatography, oil recovery, etc., pose an exciting problem of statistical... 

Active matrix contributes significantly to the overall performance of the FCC catalyst. The zeolite pores are not suitable for cracking of large hydrocarbon molecules generally having an end point > d00 [-(482°C) they are too small to allow diffusion of the large molecules to the cracking sites. An effective matrix must have a porous structure to allow diffusion of hydrocarbons into and out of the catalyst. 

The conduction through residual gases can be reduced by the application of porous structures. The convection within a single pore is minimal if pore sizes are small. In small pores the temperature difference at the walls of the pore are negligible and no convection occurs. The convection is further reduced by the evacuation of the thermal insulating material. 

A cellular or porous structure of foam plastics is produced with gas- or foam-forming agents. The quality of the resulting material depends on choosing the right agent,... 

The values of the Michaelis-Menten kinetic parameters, Vj3 and C,PP characterise the kinetic expression for the micro-environment within the porous structure. Kinetic analyses of the immobilised lipase in the membrane reactor were performed because the kinetic parameters cannot be assumed to be the same values as for die native enzymes. 

The vast increase in the application of membranes has expanded our knowledge of fabrication of various types of membrane, such as organic and inorganic membranes. The inorganic membrane is frequently called a ceramic membrane. To fulfil the need of the market, ceramic membranes represent a distinct class of inorganic membrane. There are a few important parameters involved in ceramic membrane materials, in terms of porous structure, chemical composition and shape of the filter in use. In this research, zirconia-coated y-alumina membranes have been developed using the sol-gel technique. 

Temperature gradients within the porous catalyst could not be very large, due to the low concentration of combustibles in the exhaust gas. Assuming a concentration of 5% CO, a diffusion coefficient in the porous structure of 0.01 cms/sec, and a thermal conductivity of 4 X 10-4 caI/sec°C cm, one can calculate a Prater temperature of 1.0°C—the maximum possible temperature gradient in the porous structure (107). The simultaneous heat and mass diffusion is not likely to lead to multiple steady states and instability, since the value of the 0 parameter in the Weisz and Hicks theory would be much less than 0.02 (108). 

These galvanic corrosion processes take place when one or more elemental constituents of an alloy is leached, often leaving a weak, porous structure, although the component dimensions often are unchanged. Dealloying particularly affects equipment constructed of cupronickels, bronzes, brasses, and gunmetal, such as FW heaters, strainers, valves, and pump impellers. 

The development of a porous structure in a solidifying metal caused by the evolution of dissolved or entrapped gases. 

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