Abstract

This paper reports the results of an international interlaboratory study led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the measurement of high-pressure surface excess methane adsorption isotherms on NIST Reference Material RM 8850 (Zeolite Y), at 25 °C up to 7.5 MPa. Twenty laboratories participated in the study and contributed over one-hundred adsorption isotherms of methane on Zeolite Y. From these data, an empirical reference equation was determined, along with a 95% uncertainty interval (Uk=2). By requiring participants to replicate a high-pressure reference isotherm for carbon dioxide adsorption on NIST Reference Material RM 8852 (ZSM-5), this interlaboratory study also demonstrated the usefulness of reference isotherms in evaluating the performance of high-pressure adsorption experiments.

Highlights

  • Adsorbents have many potential applications, ranging from fluid catalytic cracking to gas separation and storage, to environmental remediation (Yang 2003)

  • The C­ O2/ZSM-5 reference isotherm recently proved helpful for advancing modeling methods (Fang et al 2020)

  • The present study builds on the ­CO2/ ZSM-5 reference isotherm work

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Summary

Introduction

Adsorbents have many potential applications, ranging from fluid catalytic cracking to gas separation and storage, to environmental remediation (Yang 2003). The NIST Facility for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing (FACT Lab) led an interlaboratory study (hereafter, ILS1) on the measurement of high-pressure surface excess carbon dioxide (­CO2) adsorption isotherms on NIST Reference Material RM 8852, ammonium ZSM-5, at 20 °C up to 4.5 MPa (Nguyen et al 2018). Working through Technical Working Group 39 of the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS), the FACT Lab organized a second high-pressure interlaboratory study (hereafter, ILS2) to investigate the usefulness of the ­CO2/ZSM-5 reference isotherm in evaluating the performance of high-pressure adsorption instruments and to determine a reference isotherm for methane ­(CH4) adsorption on NIST Reference Material RM 8850, sodium Zeolite Y (ZY)..

Methods
Data evaluation
Dataset display
Reference function determination
Results and discussions
Conclusions and outlook
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