Biosorption studies of Cu(II) onto Mansonia sawdust: Process design to minimize biosorbent dose and contact time

Reactive and Functional Polymers

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 879-889

  Ofomaja, Augustine E ^a,b  

^a VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biosorption performance; Intraparticle diffusion; Multistage optimization; Overall rate limiting step; Pore and film diffusion; Pseudo second order model

Indexed keywords

INTRA-PARTICLE DIFFUSION; MULTISTAGE OPTIMIZATION; OVERALL RATE; PORE AND FILM DIFFUSION; PSEUDO-SECOND ORDER MODEL;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BIOSORPTION; DIFFUSION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; ION EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

RATE CONSTANTS;

EID: 77956278439     PISSN: 13815148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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