Adsorción física sobre sólidos: aspectos termodinámicos Physical adsorption on solids: thermodynamic aspects

• Main Authors: Juan Miguel Arias, Elihu Paternina, Daniel Barragán
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2009-01-01
• Series: Química Nova
• Subjects: physical adsorption; Gibbs isotherm; isosteric enthalpy
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422009000500046

<abstract language="eng">A thermodynamic formalism based on the Gibbs Dividing Surface (GDS) for the description of a solid-fluid interface is presented, so that the adsorption layer is understand as a phase and the adsorption process as the transference of components between a 3-dimensional phase and a 2-dimensional one. Using a state equation derived from the Henry's Law, we shall show how the Langmuir isotherm is deduced from de Gibbs isotherm. The GDS is useful also for understanding the release of heat by a system as the adsorption occurs.