Fluids in porous media

Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar

Fluids in porous media

  • Event time: 1:00pm
  • Event date: 11th February 2002
  • Speaker: Ruslan Sokolovskii (University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

Various important processes rely on porous adsorbents: catalysts, adsorption separators, filters, soils. Adsorbed fluids behave very differently from those we know in the bulk. This happens in both high-porosity materials such as silica aerogels and low-porosity materials such as Vycor glass. At least 3 factors affect phase equilibrium of fluids in porous media: wetting, randomness, and confinement due to adsorbent. I shall show phase diagrams of a model called "lattice gas with quenched impurities" or "quenched-annealed binary mixture" and shall use the 3 above keywords to explain them.

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