Journal
MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Volume 148, Issue 1, Pages 101-106Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2011.07.019
Keywords
Aerogel; Methane; Diffusivity; Neutron scattering
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- Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program
- Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy
- ORNL
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The microscopic diffusivity of methane (CH4) confined in nano-porous carbon aerogel was investigated as a function of added carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N-2) pressure using quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS). In the range of the external pressure of 1-2.5 MPa, the self-diffusivity of methane was found to increase with CO2 pressure and remain practically unchanged in the N-2 environment. Increasing mobility of methane with CO2 pressure suggests that the adsorbed CH4 molecules become gradually replaced by CO2 on the surface of carbon aerogel pores, whereas the presence of N-2 does not induce the replacement. The molecular mobility of the methane, with or without added carbon dioxide and nitrogen, is described by the unrestricted diffusion model, which is characteristic of methane compressed in small pores. On the other hand, both nitrogen and carbon dioxide molecules in carbon aerogel, when studied alone, with no methane present, follow a jump diffusion process, characteristic of the molecular mobility in the densified adsorbed layers on the surface of the aerogel pores. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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