Liquid Cavitation during Nitrogen Sorption on Soils
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 147, Issue 11
Abstract
The nitrogen sorption isotherm is conventionally used to deduce the specific surface area of porous materials. However, it often exhibits a sharp drop around 0.5 relative pressure. A theory explicitly accounting for intermolecular-scale pressure, instead of classical theories of constant disjoining pressure in condensed liquid, is constructed and used to determine cavitation during desorption. Intermolecular-scale liquid pressure distribution is quantified using a recently developed soil sorptive potential framework, showing compressive liquid nitrogen pressure decaying nonlinearly with increasing distance to the particle surface. A range of cavitation pressure is predicted by classical nucleation theory and the van der Waals equation of state. Cavitation is shown to be triggered when nitrogen’s global minimum liquid pressure falls within the cavitation threshold. It is shown that this criterion is valid for all tested soils. Computed minimum liquid pressure always occurs at 0.5 relative pressure, which is in accordance with experimental isotherm data and further indicates the validity of the cavitation onset criterion.
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All experimental data used in this work are reported in the paper.
Acknowledgments
This research is sponsored by a Tsinghua University grant (SKLHSE-D-03) the and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC51661165015).
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