Predicting ambient temperature adsorption of gases in active carbons

We describe procedures, based on the slit pore model and Monte Carlo simulation, for predicting the adsorption of pure gases in active carbons given only a single carbon dioxide 'probe' adsorption isotherm. Predictions are made at ambient temperature up to quite high pressure for methane, ethene, ethane, propene and propane. The key development in our work concerns our method for calibrating gas - surface interactions, i.e. we calibrate these interactions to a reference active carbon rather than a low surface area carbon as in most other work of this type. Our predictions highlight limitations in our surface model and experiments.