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Recent work indicates that microorganisms present in soils can remove carbon monoxide from the atmosphere and as such constitutes a major sink. B.E.T. adsorption studies were carried out on representative soils from the Willamette Valley River Basin in order to determine their adsorptive characteristics for carbon monoxide and other gases. Attempts were made to isolate, through a non-soildestructive sterilization, the adsorptive characteristics of the soil microorganisms as well as of the test soil. The carbon monoxide studies show physical adsorption equivalent to the coverage of a few per cent of the surface area at 25.0° and 76 cm-Hg. Adsorption studies also shows that the soil rather then the microorganisms adsorbs most of the carbon monoxide. On sterilized soil, chemical sorption of oxygen was present and was probably caused by the oxidation of dead or damaged soil microorganisms. Hysteresis effects were present in all adsorption studies at 25.0° and appears to be a characteristic of the constituents of the soil and represents a new and as yet unexplained phenomenon.

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M. Tech. Engineering Chemical. / Aims to investigate how the addition of impurities in a CO2 stream affects the adsorption capacity of CO2 on South African coals. To achieve this aim, the following objectives were carried out. 1. To measure the adsorption isotherms and adsorption capacities of pure CO2 and flue gas mixtures on various South African coals under in-seam conditions including pressures up to 88 bar and isothermal temperature of 35 &#x00BA%x;C; 2. To evaluate the effects of coal rank on the adsorption isotherms and adsorption capacities of pure CO2 and flue gas mixtures; 3. To do a comparative study to evaluate the effects of CO2 impurities on the adsorption capacity of pure CO2 on coal; 4. To study the degree of preferential sorption of the individual flue gas mixtures components on coal; 5. To determine the suitability of the Langmuir, Freundlich, and Temkin adsorption isotherm models in representing pure CO2 adsorption onto coal; and 6. To determine the suitability of Extended Langmuir (EL) adsorption models in representing the flue gas mixture adsorption onto coal.