Table 1 Surface areas of various molecules (in Å2) obtained from the various models of Van der Waals (VDW), Redlich–Kwong (R–K) and Kiselev models.

From: New approach to determine the surface and interface thermodynamic properties of H-β-zeolite/rhodium catalysts by inverse gas chromatography at infinite dilution

Molecule

VDW

Kiselev

Cylindrical

R-K

Spherical

Geometrical

C5H12

47.0

45

39.3

36.8

36.4

32.9

C6H14

52.7

51.5

45.5

41.3

39.6

40.7

C7H16

59.2

57

51.8

46.4

42.7

48.5

C8H18

64.9

63

58.1

50.8

45.7

56.2

C9H20

69.6

69

64.4

54.5

48.7

64.0

C10H22

74.4

75

70.7

58.2

51.7

71.8

  1. The surface areas are also compared to those obtained by geometrical, cylindrical or spherical models.