Unified method for the total pore volume and pore size distribution of hierarchical zeolites from argon adsorption and mercury intrusion

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1242-1247

  Kenvin, Jeffrey ^a   Jagiello, Jacek ^a   Mitchell, Sharon ^b   Pérez Ramírez, Javier ^b  

^a Micromeritics Instrumental Ltd   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COAL TAR; MERCURY (METAL); POROSITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CHARACTERIZATION TOOLS; HIERARCHICAL ZEOLITES; MERCURY INTRUSION; MERCURY POROSIMETRY; POROSITY ASSESSMENTS; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; TOTAL PORE VOLUME; ZEOLITE CATALYST;

PORE SIZE;

ARGON; MERCURY; ZEOLITE;

ADSORPTION; CHEMISTRY;

ADSORPTION; ARGON; CHEMISTRY; MERCURY; ZEOLITES;

EID: 84964200204     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la504575s     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Pérez-Ramírez, J.; Mitchell, S.; Verboekend, D.; Milina, M.; Michels, N.-L.; Krumeich, F.; Marti, N.; Erdmann, M. Expanding the horizons of hierarchical zeolites: beyond laboratory curiosity towards industrial realization ChemCatChem 2011, 3, 1731-1734
2. Serrano, D.; Pizarro, P.; Pizarro, P. Synthesis strategies in the search for hierarchical zeolites Chem. Soc. Rev. 2013, 42, 4004-4035
3. Li, Y.; Fu, Z.-Y.; Su, B.-L. Hierarchically-structured porous materials for energy conversion and storage Adv. Funct. Mater. 2012, 22, 4634-4667
4. Gabardo, C. M.; Zhu, Y.; Soleymani, L.; Moran-Mirabal, J. M. Bench-top fabrication of hierarchically structured high-surface-area electrodes Adv. Funct. Mater. 2013, 23, 3030-3039
5. Möller, K.; Yilmaz, B.; Jacubinas, R. M.; Müller, U.; Bein, T. One-step synthesis of hierarchical zeolite beta via network formation of uniform nanocrystals J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 5284-5295
6. Groen, J. C.; Moulijn, J. A.; Pérez-Ramírez, J. Desilication: on the controlled generation of mesoporosity in MFI zeolites J. Mater. Chem. 2006, 16, 2121-2131
7. Mitchell, S.; Michels, N.-L.; Kunze, K.; Pérez-Ramírez, J. Visualization of hierarchically structured zeolite bodies from macro to nano length scales Nat. Chem. 2012, 4, 825-831
8. Michels, N.-L.; Mitchell, S.; Milina, M.; Kunze, K.; Krumeich, F.; Marone, F.; Erdmann, M.; Marti, N.; Pérez-Ramírez, J. Hierarchically Structured Zeolite Bodies: Assembling Micro-, Meso-, and Macroporosity Levels in Complex Materials with Enhanced Properties Adv. Funct. Mater. 2012, 22, 2509-2518
9. Ritter, H. L.; Drake, L. C. Pressure Porosimeter and Determination of Complete Macropore-Size Distributions Ind. Eng. Chem., Anal. Ed. 1945, 17, 782-786
10. Barrett, E. P.; Joyner, L. G.; Halenda, P. P. The determination of pore volume and area distributions in porous substances. I. Computations from nitrogen isotherms J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1951, 73, 373-380
11. Joyner, L. G.; Barrett, E. P.; Skold, R. The determination of pore volume and area distributions in porous substances. II. Comparison between nitrogen isotherm and mercury porosimeter methods J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1951, 73, 3155-3158
12. Brown, S. M.; Lard, E. W. A comparison of nitrogen and mercury pore size distributions of silicas of varying pore volume Powder Technol. 1974, 9, 187-190
13. De Wit, L.; Scholten, J. Studies on pore structure of adsorbents and catalysts: III. Comparison of pore size distributions determined in chrysotile and zirconia samples by mercury porosimetry and nitrogen capillary condensation J. Catal. 1975, 36, 36-47
14. Winslow, D. N. The validity of high pressure mercury intrusion porosimetry J. Colloid Interface Sci. 1978, 67, 42-47
15. Davis, B. H. A comparison of surface areas derived from mercury penetration and nitrogen adsorption Appl. Catal. 1984, 10, 185-198
16. Conner, W.; Cevallos-Candau, J.; Weist, E.; Pajares, J.; Mendioroz, S.; Cortes, A. Characterization of pore structure: porosimetry and sorption Langmuir 1986, 2, 151-154
17. Murray, K.; Seaton, N.; Day, M. Use of mercury intrusion data, combined with nitrogen adsorption measurements, as a probe of pore network connectivity Langmuir 1999, 15, 8155-8160
18. Chiang, Y.-C.; Chiang, P.-C.; Huang, C.-P. Effects of pore structure and temperature on VOC adsorption on activated carbon Carbon 2001, 39, 523-534
19. Drake, L. Pore-size distribution in porous materials Ind. Eng. Chem. 1949, 41, 780-785
20. Balci, S. Effect of heating and acid pre-treatment on pore size distribution of sepiolite Clay Miner. 1999, 34, 647-647
21. Coasne, B.; Galarneau, A.; Di Renzo, F.; Pellenq, R. M. Molecular simulation of adsorption and intrusion in nanopores Adsorption 2008, 14, 215-221
22. Milina, M.; Mitchell, S.; Crivelli, P.; Cooke, D.; Pérez-Ramírez, J. Mesopore quality determines the lifetime of hierarchically structured zeolite catalysts. Nat. Commun. 2014, 5:3922, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4922.
23. Lawson, C. L.; Hanson, R. J. Solving Least Squares Problems Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1974; Vol. 161.
24. Hansen, P. C.; O'Leary, D. P. The use of the L-curve in the regularization of discrete ill-posed problems SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 1993, 14, 1487-1503
25. Jagiello, J. Stable numerical solution of the adsorption integral equation using splines Langmuir 1994, 10, 2778-2785
26. Washburn, E. W. Note on a method of determining the distribution of pore sizes in a porous material Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1921, 115-116
27. Rouquerol, J.; Baron, G.; Denoyel, R.; Giesche, H.; Groen, J.; Klobes, P.; Levitz, P.; Neimark, A. V.; Rigby, S.; Skudas, R.; Sing, K.; Thommes, M.; Unger, K. Liquid intrusion and alternative methods for the characterization of macroporous materials (IUPAC Technical Report) Pure Appl. Chem. 2011, 84, 107-136
28. Rigby, S. P.; Barwick, D.; Fletcher, R. S.; Riley, S. N. Interpreting mercury porosimetry data for catalyst supports using semi-empirical alternatives to the Washburn equation Appl. Catal. A 2003, 238, 303-318
29. Rigby, S. P.; Chigada, P. I. MF-DFT and experimental investigations of the origins of hysteresis in mercury porosimetry of silica materials Langmuir 2009, 26, 241-248
30. Olivier, J. P. Modeling physical adsorption on porous and nonporous solids using density functional theory J. Porous Mater. 1995, 2, 9-17
31. Jaroniec, M.; Kruk, M.; Oliver, J. P.; Koch, S. A new method for the accurate pore size analysis of MCM-41 and other silica based mesoporous materials Stud. Surf. Sci. Catal. 2000, 128, 71-80
32. Tarazona, P.; Marconi, U. M. B.; Evans, R. Phase equilibria of fluid interfaces and confined fluids: non-local versus local density functionals Mol. Phys. 1987, 60, 573-595
33. Galarneau, A.; Villemot, F. S.; Rodriguez, J.; Fajula, F. S.; Coasne, B. Validity of the t-plot Method to Assess Microporosity in Hierarchical Micro/Mesoporous Materials Langmuir 2014, 30, 13266-13274