Figure 5.18:

Fractional coverage versus adsorbate concentration for different values of the adsorption constant, K.

Code for Figure 5.18

Text of the GNU GPL.

main.m

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% Copyright (C) 2001, James B. Rawlings and John G. Ekerdt
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% Revised 7/24/2018

%
%  This is an m-file for generating the form of an adsorption curve
%

P=(0:250)';
answer = P;
CO_s1 = (0.01*P)./(1 + 0.01*P);

answer = [answer CO_s1];

for K=1:1:100;
    CO_s = (0.1*K*P)./(1 + 0.1*K*P);
    answer = [answer CO_s];
end

save -ascii isotherm_general.dat answer;

if (~ strcmp (getenv ('OMIT_PLOTS'), 'true')) % PLOTTING
    plot (answer(:,1),[answer(:,2:3),answer(:,12),answer(:,102)]);
    axis ([-5,250,0,1.05]);
    % TITLE
end % PLOTTING