ABSTRACT
A proper description of adsorption phenomena is essential in the design of zeolite-based separations and catalysis. Transport and chemical reactions of molecules within zeolites are also significantly influenced by their adsorption characteristics. Though experimental data on adsorption of pure components in various zeolites are available, experimental data on mixture adsorption are scarce (1-3) due to the difficulty of experimentation with mixtures. In order to interpret the experimentally observed product distributions from zeolite-catalyzed processes, we need insights into the energetics and siting of intermediate molecular species formed during the reaction; it is very difficult to obtain such information from experiments.
