Both correlation as well as prediction of experimental data for the adsorption of various binary liquid
mixtures of alkanes and alkenes on NaX at different temperatures are presented. The theoretical background
is based on the adsorbate−solid solution theory which conceives the adsorbed phase to be a mixture of the
adsorbed species (adsorbate) and the adsorbent as an additional component. With the introduction of the
Gibbs excess energy GE* for this hypothetical mixture, activity coefficients and composition of the adsorbed
phase may be calculated. The Gibbs excess energy and thus the activity coefficients of the adsorbed species
depend strongly on the energetic heterogeneity of the solid surface which may be described by use of
so-called group contribution models. These approaches, until now widely applied to predict fluid-phase
equilibrium, are derived from statistical thermodynamics and take into account the energetic interactions
between the respective components. For the application of this approach on thermodynamics of adsorption
zeolites have to be divided into different functional groups such as SiO2, AlO2
-, and the respective cations.
The interaction energies between these active sites and the functional groups of the adsorbed liquid molecules
represent fundamental parameters of activity coefficient models based on group contributions such as
UNIFAC. These parameters were determined by fitting four different adsorption systems. With the fitted
values, six other systems were predicted. Both correlation and prediction include adsorption data at different
temperatures. All calculations show excellent results with a mean relative deviation of 4.2% for the correlation
and a mean deviation in the range of 8−17% for the predictions.