10Globally, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) desalinates the largest capacity of seawater but

Osmotic syrups can be reconcentrated and reused for osmotic water removal through at least five complete cycles without adversely affecting the fruit being concentrated, even though the properties of the osmotic medium do change. Syrup penetration rate into a fruit piece was faster with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) than sucrose. Taste panel evaluation indicated that overall, sucrose was preferred as an osmotic medium over HFCS.

The adsorbate-adsorbent thermodynamics are complex as it is influenced by the pore size distributions, surface heterogeneity and site energy distribution, as well as the adsorbate properties. Together, these parameters defined the adsorbate uptake forming the state diagrams, known as the adsorption isotherms, when the sorption site energy on the pore surfaces are favorable. The available adsorption models for describing the vapor uptake or isotherms, hitherto, are individually defined to correlate to a certain type of isotherm patterns. There is yet a universal approach in developing these isotherm models. In this paper, we demonstrate that the characteristics of all sorption isotherm types can be succinctly unified by a revised Langmuir model when merged with the concepts of Homotattic Patch Approximation (HPA) and the availability of multiple sets of site energy accompanied by their respective fractional probability factors. The total uptake (q/q*) at assorted pressure ratios (P/P s) are inextricably traced to the manner the site energies are spread, either naturally or engineered by scientists, over and across the heterogeneous surfaces. An insight to the porous heterogeneous surface characteristics, in terms of adsorption site availability has been presented, describing the unique behavior of each isotherm type.

A theoretical framework for the estimation of the isosteric heat of adsorption between an adsorbate (vapor) and an adsorbent (solid) is proposed based on the thermodynamic requirements of chemical equilibrium, Maxwell relations, and the entropy of the adsorbed phase. The derived equation for the isosteric heat of adsorption is verified against three sets of judiciously selected adsorbent+adsorbate data that are found in the literature and the predictions are found to agree within the experimental uncertainties of the reported data.