KEF/BBET Gas Sorption Methods

Lecturer: Jiří Pechoušek
Lecture: 25 hours/semester
Credits: 3
Winter semester
Form of course completion: exam

• Sorption of gas, physisorption, chemisorption, principles of specific surface area and porosity measurement, adosorbents, adsorbates.
• Methods of adsorption isotherms measurements and its classification, hysteresis loops, microporosity, mesoporosity.
• Adsorption isotherms, Langmuir isotherm, BET isotherm (BET theory), evaluation of isotherms by using the BET method, capillary condensation.
• Chemisorption, characterization of catalysts surface, material analysis for gas storage.
• Practical examples of measurements and results evaluation.