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Chemistry and Industry of Forest Products ›› 2016, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 79-86.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2417.2016.02.012

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Application of Modified Density Functional Theory in Pore Size Distribution Model of Activated Carbon

WANG Guo-dong1, JIANG Jian-chun1,2, SUN Kang2   

  1. 1. College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China;
    2. Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF, Nanjing 210042, China
  • Received:2015-10-10 Online:2016-04-25 Published:2016-04-26

Abstract: To improve the accuracy of Pore Size Distribution (PSD) for activated carbon, we adopt 4 kinds of Density Functional Theory (DFT) with different methods to calculate excess Helmholtz free energy. The excess adsorption of 3 kinds of gases (CH4, N2 and CO2) in slit pore with the pore size in the range from 0.65 to 5 nm was obtained using the pressure of 0.2-2 MPa at 298 K. The results of methods are similar for CH4 and N2, but for CO2, the results of MF and FMSA are underestimated comparing with the results of two DFT methods based on Weight Density Approximation. This means that correlation effect shall not be neglected in the excess Helmholtz free energy. WDA (Yu) with the smallest condition number of the kernel is more suitable for PSD study. Moreover, 6 numerical methods are used to fit 3 kinds of isotherms of 3 activated carbon samples with the average deviation between the fitting result and experiment data less than 5 %, and the required PSD models can be used to compare qualitatively for different samples.

Key words: application of classical density functional theory, modifications of mean field approximation, porous materials, adsorption integral equation, pore size distribution

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