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Coverage-dependent kinetics and thermodynamics of carbon monoxide adsorption on a ternary copper catalyst derived from static adsorption microcalorimetry.

Xia X, Naumann d'Alnoncourt R, Strunk J, Litvinov S, Muhler M

Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.

A reliable method for adsorption systems in equilibrium is established to derive coverage-dependent kinetics and thermodynamics from the volumetric data obtained during the static microcalorimetric measurement of heats of adsorption. The Wigner-Polanyi equation is applied to analyze the pressure change as a function of time during stepwise dosing of the adsorptive until thermodynamic adsorption-desorption equilibrium is established. For carbon monoxide adsorption on a hydrogen-reduced Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst, the adsorption rate constant (ka) is found to be in the range from 10(-6) to 10(-4) Pa(-1) s(-1), and the desorption rate constant (kd) from 10(-4) to 10(-2) s(-1), both increasing with fractional coverage theta. The kinetically derived equilibrium constant Ktheta is in good agreement with Ktheta obtained from the adsorption isotherm. RT ln(Kp0) and the differential heat of adsorption (qdiff) were found to decrease in parallel, reflecting a normal Temkin-type heterogeneity.

Published 20 April 2006 in J Phys Chem B Condens Matter Mater Surf Interfaces Biophys, 110(16): 8409-15.
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