Abstract:
Sorption kinetics of various oils with different viscosities from 0.001 to 0.850Pa•s into exfoliated graphite column was characterized by measuring sorptivity (effective sorption coefficient) KS and saturated amount of sorption msat. A strong dependence of sorptivity KS on viscosity of oils was observed. Saturated amount of sorption msat into the column was almost a constant of 50kg/kg, which was a little bit smaller than that measured by direct soaking of a lump of exfoliated graphite in oils, due to the presence of a gradient of sorbed oils along the height of exfoliated graphite column.