The project novelty is the extension of the literature work of Brandani which covered homogeneous surfaces to all surfaces which basically are heterogeneous in nature. Brandani showed that ZLC experiments for homogeneous surfaces provide satisfactory diffusivities in the long time region of the experiment but that the equilibrium parameters are difficult to determine accurately. In this paper, in determining both the diffusivity and equilibrium parameters for heterogeneous surfaces due caution should be observed. In fact for the heterogeneity parameter t less than 0.5, it is very difficult to determine either diffusivity or equilibrium parameters just using the long time region of the experimental curve.
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