| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M89539/02 |
| Title: |
SCOPE OF ADSORPTION-BASED POROUS SOLID CHARACTERISATION METHODS:AN ABSOLUTE ASSESSMENT |
| Principal Investigator: |
Biggs, Professor MJ |
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Sch of Chemical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 2001 |
Ends: |
31 October 2003 |
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116,167
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Microporous solids are used extensively in the process and pharmaceutical industries, in environmental clean-up, and in medicine as absorbers, molecular sieves and catalysts. Characterisation of such solids is critical to their design and use and it will become increasingly important as demand for highly function-specific solids increases. Simplicity and cheapness means adsorption is the most common characterisation method. Unfortunately, the various adsorption methods often yield different results for the same solid. This has motivated much work assessing the accuracy of these methods and what they actually measure. Despite this activity, no firm conclusions have been reached due to the lack of a perfectly characterised amorphous solid; this limits assessment of relative comparison.This project aims to develop a novel methodology for absolute assessment of adsorption-based characterisation methods of porous solids, and to use this approach to assess, for the first time, existing methods on an absolute basis. This new methodology is made possible by the existence of Virtual Solids which are perfectly characterised models of porous solids suitable for use with molecular simulation. The new methodology will also be used to build greater understanding of what adsorption-based methods are measuring and fundamental understanding of fluid behaviour in real solids.
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