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Critical Evaluation of Macroscopic Theories for Multi-Component Diffusion in Ideal Langmuir Sorbents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2011

Nieck E. Benes  and
Henk Verweij
Nieck E. Benes
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Ohio State University, 2041 College Road, Columbus OH 43210–1178, USA Internet: www.mse.eng.ohio-state.edu/fac_staff/faculty/verweij/
Henk Verweij
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering & MESA+ Research Institute, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands Internet: http://ims.ct.utwente.nl/personen/docenten/benes.html
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Abstract

Materials research involves many areas for which a proper understanding of multi-component mass transport is essential. Examples include sintering and transport-limited reaction in syntheses. In addition, materials may be principally designed for direct manipulation of mass transport, as in membrane materials. Macroscopic descriptions for mass transport are available, but physical interpretation of related transport parameters is generally not straightforward and often relies on microscopic considerations. We will show that, even for diffusion in a simple ideal Langmuir type lattice, macroscopic theories should be used with caution. Differences in mobilities of dissimilar species can set off percolation behavior, causing the flux of the more mobile species to vanish. Such behavior is, for instance, observed for zeolite membranes and cannot be predicted by commonly accepted macroscopic transport theories. Correlations between successive movements of molecules cause a decrease in the self-diffusion coefficient, DS. For non-equilibrium transport it can be shown that correlation effects in most cases disappear in which case non-equilibrium transport becomes related to the component diffusion coefficient D, instead of the smaller DS.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 752: Symposium AA – Membranes–Preparation, Properties and Applications , 2002 , AA8.12
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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