BEL-Max and Bel-Cat Training

21 February 2024



For VISTEC only


On behalf of FRC, we would like to inform you that the training of  Bel-Max and Bel-cat  will be conducted as follows:


Speaker name: Dr. Jürgen Adolphs

Position: Head of the Application Center, Microtrac Retsch GmbH

Date: 16 (Fri) February 2024

instruction will be conducted in English.        


Topic: Instruction detail of BELMAX

Time: 09.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.

Place:  M136  ( MSE Building)


Instruction Detail: 

1) Principle of adsorption isotherm/mono & multilayer adsorption 

2) Principle of Surface area/pore volume (micorpore/mesopore/macropore) 

3) Belmax component-instrumentation      

4) Sample preparation/amount to obtain reliable isotherm 

5) How to operate Belmax to obtain reliable isotherm in short time 

6) The difference of gas and vapor adsorption and their applications 

7) Determination of specific surface area by BET plot and T-plot 

8) Determination of pore size distribution by NLDFT/GCMC BJH 


Topic:  Instruction detail of Belcat.

Time: 13.00 p.m. – 16.00 p.m.

Place: M136 ( MSE Building)


Instruction Detail: 

1) Principle of chemisorption (CO/H2-Pulse, NH3/CO2-TPD, TPO & TPR) and their applications

2) Principle of thermal conductivity detector (TCD) and thermal conductivity of gases

3) Belcat component-instrumentation      

4) Sample preparation

5) How to operate Belcat to obtain reliable result 

6) How to interpreted the results


Any further information, please contact:

Frontier Research Center (FRC)

Tel: (+66)33 014 016

E-Mail: Nattamon.c@vistec.ac.th