Principal scientists: Prof. Joeri Denayer and Prof. Tom Van Assche.
The Adsorption Group of the department Chemical Engineering owns an impressive amount of high tech equipment. This allows us to study liquid, vapour and gas phase applications.
Breakthrough profiles of flow-through adsorption/separation processes are measured on our dynamic setups. These can also be used for flow-through reactive processes. Usually the adsorbent (or catalyst) is trapped in a packed column. Adsorption isotherms are measured on our static setups. These experiments deliver more fundamental parameters describing the adsorption process. Both types of experiments can be performed for single-component and multi-component (competitive) adsorptions.
See our equipment for:
- Dynamic Liquid Phase adsorption: Measurement of liquid phase separations on adsorption/reaction columns (packed bed)
- Dynamic Gas and Vapour Phase adsorption: Measurement of breakthrough of gas phase components on an adsorption bed.
- Static Gas and Vapour Phase adsorption: Measurement of adsorption isotherms for low coverage adsorption.
- Static Liquid Phase adsorption: Measurement of adsorption isotherms for high coverage adsorption.
- Thermodynamics of adsorption: Measurement of the adsorption constants for low coverage adsorption.
- Characterization of products and sorbents: Measurement of physical properties of sorbents, identification and quantification of products.