Abstract
Adsorption equilibria of CO(2), CH(4), and their mixtures were measured on binderless pellets of NIST reference zeolite NaY (RM 8850) using a static gravimetric setup. The unary adsorption isotherms are reported at temperatures from 298 to 393 K up to a pressure of 3 MPa and compare favorably with independent results on RM 8850 powder. The competitive adsorption measurements were performed at temperatures from 298 to 353 K and up to 3 MPa for three premixed gas mixtures with CO(2) molar feed compositions of 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75. The results constitute the first competitive adsorption dataset reported for any of the NIST reference materials. RM 8850 shows a strong selectivity for CO(2) adsorption toward CH(4). The experimental unary and binary adsorption isotherms are accurately modeled using the simplified statistical isotherm model (SSI). Notably, the agreement with the model improves only slightly (and within experimental uncertainties) when the whole dataset is used for parameter fitting as opposed to only using the unary data.