The diffusion processes of gas mixture in typical porous media were simulated by the Maxwell-Stefan model to study the effect of pore radius on the diffusion process and the interaction between each species of multicomponent during diffusion in porous media. The model and the numerical method adopted here were verified by the experimental data in literature. Then the effect of pore radius was examined on the diffusion process of CH
4
/Ar mixture and the interaction between CH
4
/Ar/H
2
during diffusion in porous media. The results show that the diffusion of CH
4
/Ar will rise with an increase in the pore radius when it is smaller than 0.5 μm while the diffusion process is independent on the pore radius when it is larger than
0.5 μm. Moreover
the adverse diffusion may occur when the dragging effect is stronger than the concentration gradient effect. In addition
species with small molecules diffuse faster than those with big molecules. These results imply that the Maxwell-Stefan model can describe the diffusion process of multicomponent gas mixture efficiently.
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