Mercury porosimetry has been used to characterize the macroporosity of several carbon materials activated by steam or carbon dioxide and their surface fractal dimension is determined. The first part is devoted to the analysis of the differential volume versus pressure curves in order to distinguish
Fractal Analysis of Mercury Porosimetry Data in the Framework of the Thermodynamic Method
β Scribed by B. Sahouli; S. Blacher; R. Pirard; F. Brouers
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Volume
- 214
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9797
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β¦ Synopsis
The thermodynamic method for fractal analysis is applied to mercury intrusion data. The results for representative commercial carbon black samples and a series of resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) freeze-dried gels for different values of the molar ratio of resorcinol (R) to catalyst (C) are discussed in relation with the type of behavior exhibited by the samples during mercury porosimetry measurements. The obtained surface fractal dimensions are compared with those derived previously from the small-angle X ray scattering (SAXS) and the nitrogen adsorption.
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