Adsorption kinetics of 4-nitrophenol onto a cellulosic material, mansonia wood sawdust and multistage batch adsorption process optimization

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1192-1200

  Ofomaja, Augustine E ^a,c   Unuabonah, Emmanuel I ^b  

^a VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b REDEEMER S UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Contact time; Initial biosorption; Intraparticle diffusion; Kinetics; Multistage optimization

Indexed keywords

4-NITROPHENOL; ADSORPTION KINETICS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BATCH ADSORPTION; BIOSORBENTS; CELLULOSIC MATERIAL; CONTACT TIME; COUNTER CURRENT; ELECTROSTATIC ATTRACTIONS; HYDROGEN IONS; INITIAL BIOSORPTION; INTRAPARTICLE DIFFUSION; MULTI-STAGE OPTIMIZATION; RATE-CONTROLLING; TWO-STEP MECHANISMS; WOOD SAWDUST;

ADSORPTION; BIOSORPTION; DYES; OPTIMIZATION; SOLUTIONS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 78650290993     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2010.09.023     Document Type: Article

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