Film and intraparticle mass transfer during the adsorption of metal ions onto bone char
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
- Vol. 271 (2), 284-295
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2003.12.015
Abstract
The sorption of three metal ions, namely, copper, cadmium, and zinc, onto bone char has been studied in terms of equilibrium and rate studies. Equilibrium studies have been analyzed using the Langmuir isotherm equation and the maximum sorption capacities for the metals were 0.477, 0.709, and 0.505 mmolg(-1) bone char for cadmium, copper, and zinc ions, respectively. The kinetic experimental data were used to analyze the effect of external film boundary layer and intraparticle mass transfer resistance on the sorption process and its significance. Four methods of determining the external film transport coefficient were developed and tested; three utilized experimental data to obtain the coefficient and the fourth method was completely empirical. The three experimentally based models give very similar results and consequently similar values of the deviation error values, whereas the error values for the empirical correlation were greater than these three values. The results also demonstrated that the methods for determining the film coefficient could be integrated into more complex diffusion-transport models such as film-intraparticle diffusion processes.Keywords
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