The prediction of properties in porous materials is of continuing interest in the fields of chemical and materials engineering
2015
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- The prediction of properties in porous materials is of continuing interest in the fields of chemical and materials engineering
- There has been substantial effort over the years devoted to developing equations of state suitable for thermodynamic property predictions in fluids confined in porous media
- An important class of these equations of state is of the mean-field type, which are of interest because they are often analytic and amenable for use in process engineering calculations
- Two important questions arise in the context of such equations of state: How accurate are they for real fluids, and can the number of adjustable parameters required for their use be kept to a minimum? The main purpose in this chapter tutorial is to describe a mean-field statistical mechanical approach for developing equations of state for predicting the properties of confined fluids, including their critical properties, which can be quite different from their bulk fluid counterparts
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