Equilibrium and kinetic studies on free cyanide adsorption from aqueous solution by activated carbon

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-133

  Behnamfard, Ali ^a   Salarirad, Mohammad Mehdi ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Cyanide; Kinetics; Linear regression; Sorption isotherm models

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION EQUILIBRIA; ADSORPTION PROCESS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BATCH TESTS; BEST FIT; CONTACT TIME; DUBININ-RADUSHKEVICH; EQUILIBRIUM DATA; FIRST ORDER; FRACTIONAL POWER; FREE CYANIDES; FREUNDLICH; INTRA-PARTICLE DIFFUSION; KINETIC DATA; KINETIC MODELS; KINETIC STUDY; LANGMUIR; PETERSON; PSEUDO-SECOND ORDER MODEL; SECOND ORDERS; SORPTION ISOTHERM MODELS; THREE-PARAMETER MODELS; TWO-PARAMETER MODELS; ZERO ORDER;

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; CHARCOAL; CYANIDES; KINETIC THEORY; LINEARIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

ACTIVATED CARBON; CYANIDE;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CYANIDE; MODELING; REACTION KINETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; STATISTICAL MODEL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ADSORPTION; CHARCOAL; CYANIDES; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 67651095799     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.04.124     Document Type: Article

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