Water desorption isotherms

Table 2. Results of the exploitation of the water desorption isotherms obtained at 40 °C.

Limitations in microscope resolving power also cause variatioiB between laboratory and optical porosity measurements. Figure 3 shows water desorption isotherms for several MWX cores, along with relationships between relative humidity, capillary pressure, and pore size. Twenty to thirty... 

Sorbed pesticides are not available for transport, but if water having lower pesticide concentration moves through the soil layer, pesticide is desorbed from the soil surface until a new equiUbrium is reached. Thus, the kinetics of sorption and desorption relative to the water conductivity rates determine the actual rate of pesticide transport. At high rates of water flow, chances are greater that sorption and desorption reactions may not reach equihbrium (64). NonequiUbrium models may describe sorption and desorption better under these circumstances. The prediction of herbicide concentration in the soil solution is further compHcated by hysteresis in the sorption—desorption isotherms. Both sorption and dispersion contribute to the substantial retention of herbicide found behind the initial front in typical breakthrough curves and to the depth distribution of residues. 

Nitrogen adsorption isotherms were measured with a sorbtometer Micromeretics Asap 2010 after water desorption at 130°C. The distribution of pore radius was obtained from the adsorption isotherms by the density functional theory. Electron microscopy study was carried out with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) HitachiS800, to image the texture of the fibers and with a transmission electron microscope (TEM) JEOL 2010 to detect and measure metal particle size. The distribution of particles inside the carbon fibers was determined from TEM views taken through ultramicrotome sections across the carbon fiber. 

The N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms of dried chitosan gel and chitosan-zeolite composites are reported in Figure 4 (a). Dried chitosan gels present a surface area lower than 5 m2 g"1 and virtually no porosity, the evaporation of water having brought about the coalescence of the polymer fibrils. The composites with a small amount of zeolites (less than 8 % for the zeolite X composite) present a type 4 isotherm leaning towards... 

The most fundamental manner of demonstrating the relationship between sorbed water vapor and a solid is the water sorption-desorption isotherm. The water sorption-desorption isotherm describes the relationship between the equilibrium amount of water vapor sorbed to a solid (usually expressed as amount per unit mass or per unit surface area of solid) and the thermodynamic quantity, water activity (aw), at constant temperature and pressure. At equilibrium the chemical potential of water sorbed to the solid must equal the chemical potential of water in the vapor phase. Water activity in the vapor phase is related to chemical potential by... 

Generation of water sorption/desorption isotherms in a controlled relative humidity environment can be carried out either gravimetrically or volumetrically. Gravimetric methods require... 

Fig. 3 Water vapor sorption and desorption isotherms for ipratropium bromide at 20°C ( ), 2 month sorption (A), 5 month sorption ( ), 2 and 5 month desorption [Note All 2 month sorption results, except at 53% and 63% relative humidity, were verified at 5 months.]...

The desorption isotherm describes, under equilibrium conditions, the amount of water absorbed on the product at a given temperature as a function of water vapor pressure, as shown in Fig. 1.96. To approximate the equilibrium at a given temperature in a short time, the pressure during SD should be small compared with the equilibrium vapor pressure,... 

Adsorption of water by cellulose displays hysteresis. The adsorption isotherm is not identical to the desorption isotherm and the amount of adsorbed water in equilibrium with the atmosphere at a particular relative humidity is higher during desorption from a higher humidity than during adsorption from a lower humidity. A plot of the adsorption/desorption isotherm is shown in Figure 5.4. 

Figure 5.4 Water adsorption and desorption isotherms for cellulose.

Many models have been developed that deal with the sorption properties of wood in the presence of moisture these have been discussed in a number of works (e.g. Skaar, 1972 Siau, 1984). They can be approximately divided into sorption models, such as the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) model, or solution models (such as the Hailwood-Horrobin, H-H, model). The sigmoidal shapes of sorption or desorption isotherms can be deconvoluted into two components. These are often taken to represent a monomolecular water layer (associated with the primary sorption sites, OH groups), and a multilayer component where the cell wall bound water molecules are less intimately associated with the fixed cell wall OH groups. 

Teng, C.D., Zarrintan, M.H., and Groves, M.J. (1991). Water vapor adsorption and desorption isotherms of biologically active proteins. Pharm. Res., 8(2), 191-195. 

Figure 3. (A) XRD patterns and (B) N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms of the calcined mesoporous silica ropes obtained from the C,6TMAB-HNO3-TEOS-(PEO-6000)-H2O system before and after the post-synthesis ammonia treatment at 100 °C and a further hydrothermal stability test in water at 100 °C.

As indicated by XRD patterns, there exist just 2-3 broad peaks in the calcined acid-made materials (Fig. 3A). Moreover, the N2 adsorption/desorption isotherm shown in Fig. 3B, the calcined acid-made mesoporous silica indeed possesses a broad capillary condensation at the partial pressure p/p0 of ca. 0.2-0.4, indicating a broad pore size distribution with a FWHM ca. 1.0 nm calculated from the BJH method. This is attributed to the occurrence of partial collapse of the mesostructure during the high temperature calcination. The hexagonal structure completely collapsed when subjected to further hydrothermal treatment in water at 100 °C for 3 h. Mesoporous silica materials synthesized from the acid route are commonly believed to be less stable than those from the alkaline route [6,7]. 

Figures 1(a) and 1(b) show the N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms of PSM and AMM samples after treatment in boiling water for 1 day and 10 days, respectively. After 1 day in boiling water, the two AMM samples (i.e. AMM-1 and AMM-5) show slightly higher N2 adsorption than that of PSM. Due to the addition of Na+, Br or Cl" in the synthetic gel mixture, the synthesis of PSM was under the presence of those...

Figure 1. N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms of PSM and AMM samples before any treatment (solid mark) and after treatment in boiling water for (a) 1 day and (b) 10 days...

The incorporation of high amount of niobium results in the formation of an additional pore system and the achievement of an incoherent structure. A stirring with water (at RT, for 8 h) leads to the well ordered homogeneous material, confirmed by the adsorption/desorption isotherm and the pore size distribution (Figure 1 A). 

Fig. 1.85.6. Desorption isotherms of the residual moisture content (% w/w) as a function of water vapor pressure (1) 20 (2) 40 (3) 60 °C...

Agar gel is a hygroscopic medium for w < 60% [7], In this range, the equation (10) allows the determination of de from the chemical potential of water given by the desorption isotherm. Assuming that the two-phase structure of the medium is conserved, the coefficient (3 can be expressed by (3 = 1/3 (a I w), where a is the ratio between the specific mass of the water and the specific mass of the solid. This expression is confirmed by experimental tests (fig. 4). The coefficient Kw (fig. 5) was measured for a plate of gel placed in a PEG solution [6]. Dw and De (fig. 6) are deduced from ... 

Two different adsorbents, activated carbon Norit R 0.8 Extra (Norit N.V., The Netherlands) and molecular sieve (type 4A, Merck), were used to study tert-butylbenzene, cyclohexane, and water vapour breakthrough dynamics. Structural parameters of the carbon adsorbent were calculated from benzene vapour adsorption-desorption isotherms measured gravimetrically at 293 K using a McBain-Bakr quartz microbalance, and nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherms recorded at 77.4 K using a Micromeritics ASAP 2405N analyzer described in detail elsewhere.22,24 Activated carbon Norit has a cylindrical... 

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