ARIC Advanced Adsorption Course

The course will take place in Edinburgh (UK) on February 16-18, 2027.

This Advanced Course is aimed to PhD students, Researchers and Industrialists willing to gain a deeper insight of the fundamental aspects of adsorption kinetics using macroscopic techniques. It is based on over 30 years of experience in this field and is structured as an intensive 3-day programme including formal lectures, discussion periods and numerical tutorials focusing on gas mass transport kinetics from the fundamental to the practical guidelines on the most common experimental techniques and the analysis and interpretation of kinetic responses.

The first day will introduce the definition of the different mechanisms of mass transport in porous and nanoporous materials, including multicomponent mixtures. The emphasis will be on the structure of the models that describe adsorption uptake kinetics in materials used in adsorption processes, including carbon molecular sieves. The second day will cover in great details aspects of gravimetric and volumetric measurements. The final day will be devoted to flow systems and in particular zero length column and breakthrough experiments.

The course builds on the introductory material of EESA 2026 and provides a deep dive into more advanced topics based on more than 30 years of experience. It will include examples on how to and how not to carry out and analyse dynamic adsorption experiments. For an overview of the range of experimental techniques please see an example of flow systems (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.5b05015) and our adsorption differential volumetric apparatus (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.4c02858).

Preliminary schedule of activities:

ARIC members (up to 3 delegates per company) are granted free participation to the course.

The registration is now open.

Early bird registration deadline: 08 January 2027.

Registration fees include lunch and coffee, the course dinner.

There is a maximum number of participants, an early registration is recommended.

The University of Edinburgh

School of Engineering

Mayfield Road

Edinburgh

EH9 3FB

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