Experimental adsorption isotherms for methane in 5A zeolite over the pressure range 0–5 MPa have been obtained and analyzed using a statistical thermodynamical formulation which relates the observed macroscopic thermodynamic quantities to microscopic gas–solid interactions. The efficiency of the zeolite as a methane storage system has thus been evaluated.
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