The characterization of porous bed is of crucial importance in many scientific and technological areas related to materials and chemical processes. Mass and heat transfer in a porous media depend on metric, topological and topographical properties. Because the difficulties of experimental access to topological and topographical properties sometimes it is practical the use of computer simulation techniques to evaluate those parameters. This paper presents the simulation results of adsorbing beds using commercial 5A zeolites. The sphere packing models applied to adsorbing beds are adjusted through the comparison of metric properties, such as volumetric fraction and specific area of pores, evaluated for simulated and real beds. Starting from adjusted models, the topological and topographical properties, like radial distribution of porosity and pore connectivity are estimated and compared with those parameters obtained for real beds through the use of indirect methods.
