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Analysis Of Thermal Effects In Infrared And Interference Microscopy: N-Butane-5a And Methanol-Ferrierite Systems, Lars Heinke, Christian Chmelik, Pavel Kortunov, Dhananjai B. Shah, S. Brandani, Douglas M. Ruthven, Jörg Kärger
Analysis Of Thermal Effects In Infrared And Interference Microscopy: N-Butane-5a And Methanol-Ferrierite Systems, Lars Heinke, Christian Chmelik, Pavel Kortunov, Dhananjai B. Shah, S. Brandani, Douglas M. Ruthven, Jörg Kärger
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Recently, infrared and interference microscopy methods have been increasingly applied to measure internal concentration gradients and hence the uptake of different adsorbates in zeolite crystals. In contrast to conventional macroscopic batch uptake techniques, these microscopic/mesoscopic methods measure changes associated with single zeolite crystals. The analysis of data from these measurements to determine micropore diffusivities has been performed on the basis of the assumption that isothermal conditions prevail during both the adsorption and desorption experiments. This assumption is critically examined in this paper for the case of methanol diffusion in ferrierite crystals during adsorption and desorption to vacuum. It is shown …