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Re: Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbon

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbon
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-climate-pollutant-methane-gas-porous.html
> 
> 
>> Activated carbon, which is a type of carbon material containing
>> numerous nanopores, is often used to adsorb gases in the energy
>> sector. The authors chose to use computational methods to study the
>> influence of intermolecular interactions between different types of
>> molecules - in this case, they simplified the approach by limiting it
>> to methane and activated carbon - on adsorption. Their goal was to
>> identify molecular interactions that could prevent such a process.
>>
>> First, they employed a standard simulation approach, which was dubbed
>> grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. Parallel to that, they used
>> a simple lattice gas model coupled with equations describing the
>> intermolecular interactions, otherwise referred to as classical
>> density functional theory. They found that both approaches yielded
>> qualitative agreement with previously published experimental data.
>> However, the second approach yielded results more in line with
>> experimental data for gases adsorbed into carbon materials when
>> equations are amended through simple corrections pertaining to energy
>> levels, rather than by corrections related to the difference in the
>> size of the various molecules involved.

Then burn the methane enriched carbon, hot damn.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbon Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 21:20 -0600
  Re: Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbon jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-03 03:47 +0000
  Re: Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbon gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-03 14:35 -0600

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