Novel method to determine accessible volume, area, and pore size distribution of activated carbon

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4150-4160

  Herrera, L F ^a   Fan, Chunyan ^a   Do, D D ^a   Nicholson, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBLE SURFACE AREAS; ACCESSIBLE VOLUME; EXCESS ISOTHERM; GEOMETRIC AREA; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MONTE CARLO INTEGRATION METHOD; NICHOLSON; NOVEL METHODS; PORE VOLUME; POROUS SOLID MODEL; POROUS SOLIDS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SURFACE AREA;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PORE SIZE; SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79953295373     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie102169u     Document Type: Article

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