Thermodynamic modeling of solute adsorption equilibrium from near-critical carbon dioxide

Abstract

Modeling of adsorption equilibrium for supercritical fluid mixtures, with as few parameters as possible, is important in applications of the technology of supercritical fluid adsorption. In this paper, a correlative model has been developed to represent the adsorption equilibria of solutes from the near-critical CO 2 fluid. A two-dimensional van der Waals equation of state and the three-dimensional P– R equation of state were used to describe the adsorbed and bulk phases, respectively. This model contains five parameters for adsorption equilibrium isotherms at finite concentrations and two parameters for adsorption equilibrium constants at infinite dilution. All the parameters are independent of temperature and pressure. By applying the model to the experimental data from the literature, it was shown that this model is capable of describing the adsorption behavior of solutes from supercritical carbon dioxide over relatively wide temperature and pressure ranges. In addition, the adsorption behavior of supercritical fluid mixtures was investigated at finite and infinite dilution conditions.