Aims: To provide an understanding of the concepts and theories relating to the properties of porous systems and how these properties inform on the design and use of engineering materials suitable for use in a broad range of processing applications.
Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this unit, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the structures as well as the fundamental thermodynamic and transport properties of porous materials as used in a broad range of processing applications.
Skills:
Analysis, data acquisition and interpretation, and problem solving. Taught/facilitated and assessed.
Content:
Structures of porous systems; classification of pores, shapes, connectivity, tortuosity, size distributions. Crystalline, bidisperse, carbonaceous, polymeric, and amorphous materials; examples of engineered macroporous, microporous and nanoporous forms for sorption, storage, ion exchange, membrane and reaction processes. Forces and energetics of physical and chemical sorption. Thermodynamic equilibria for single and multicomponent systems; characterisation techniques. Transport processes of mass and energy; interparticle and intraparticle processes; Maxwellian, Knudsen and surface diffusion; experimental measurement techniques.
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