Supercritical adsorption equilibrium has a significant role in defining supercritical adsorption behavior. In this paper, the adsorption equilibrium of citric acid from supercritical CO2/ethanol on a cyano column was ...Supercritical adsorption equilibrium has a significant role in defining supercritical adsorption behavior. In this paper, the adsorption equilibrium of citric acid from supercritical CO2/ethanol on a cyano column was systematically investigated with the elution by characteristic point method. Equilibrium loading was obtained at 313.15 K and 321.15 K with supercritical CO2/ethanol densities varying from 0.7068 g·cm-3to 0.8019 g·cm-3. The experimental results showed that the adsorption capacity of citric acid decreased with increasing temperature and increasing density of the supercritical CO2/ethanol mobile phase. The adsorption equilibrium data were fitted well by the Quadratic Hill isotherm model and the isotherms showed anti-Langmuir behavior. The monolayer saturation adsorption capacity of citric acid is in the range of 44.54 mg·cm-3to 64.66 mg·cm-3with an average value of 56.86 mg·cm-3.展开更多
文摘Supercritical adsorption equilibrium has a significant role in defining supercritical adsorption behavior. In this paper, the adsorption equilibrium of citric acid from supercritical CO2/ethanol on a cyano column was systematically investigated with the elution by characteristic point method. Equilibrium loading was obtained at 313.15 K and 321.15 K with supercritical CO2/ethanol densities varying from 0.7068 g·cm-3to 0.8019 g·cm-3. The experimental results showed that the adsorption capacity of citric acid decreased with increasing temperature and increasing density of the supercritical CO2/ethanol mobile phase. The adsorption equilibrium data were fitted well by the Quadratic Hill isotherm model and the isotherms showed anti-Langmuir behavior. The monolayer saturation adsorption capacity of citric acid is in the range of 44.54 mg·cm-3to 64.66 mg·cm-3with an average value of 56.86 mg·cm-3.