RESEARCH ARTICLE
Evaluation of Equilibrium Sorption Isotherm Equations
Chiachung Chen*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2013Volume: 7
First Page: 24
Last Page: 44
Publisher ID: TOCENGJ-7-24
DOI: 10.2174/1874123101307010024
Article History:
Received Date: 19/08/2013Revision Received Date: 22/10/2013
Acceptance Date: 23/11/2013
Electronic publication date: 13/12/2013
Collection year: 2013
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Abstract
The sorption isotherm is important information for evaluating the ability of an adsorption system to treat the industrial waste water. In this study, eleven datasets from literatures were selected and three two-parameter and three-parameter equations were used to evaluate adsorption systems. Quantitative criteria included six error functions, and the quantitative criterion was residual plots. Isotherm constants differed by linearization and nonlinear regression analysis, especially for the three-parameter equations. The results indicated the inconsistent results of the error functions for select-ing the adequate equations. Residual plots were useful to observe the fitting ability of isotherm equations. Temperature has a significant effect on isotherm constants.