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Surface Area and Porosity PDF
Surface Area and Porosity PDF
by
Neal Leddy
CMA Analytical Workshop
2012
Wm (weight of monolayer)
Total Surface area (St) can then be derived
Multipoint BET:
Minimum of three data points.
Multipoint BET Plot
Relative Volume @ STP 1/[W((Po/P)-1]
Pressure cc/g
P/Po
1.10536e-01 7.5355 1.3195e+1
1.53021e-01 8.1192 1.7804e+1
1.99422e-01 8.7403 2.2803e+1
2.48028e-01 9.4102 2.8045e+1
2.97227e-01 10.1099 3.3472e+1
Summary
Slope = 108.451
Intercept = 1.195e+00
Correlation coefficient, r = 0.99999
C constant= 91.759
Surface Area = 31.762 m²/g
C Constant
Relative error between Single/Multi point Comparison
single and multipoint
Constant Relative error
BET, (typically measured 1 0.70
10 0.19
at P/P0 of 0.3)
50 0.04
100 0.02
1000 0.0002
Infinity 0
Langmuir
The Langmuir equation describes Microporus
material exhibiting Type I Isotherms.
- Macroporous >50nm
- Mesoporus 2-50nm
- Microporus <2nm
Porosity - pore volume