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Insights Into Modeling of Adsorption Isotherm Systems: Chemical Engineering Journal January 2010

The article reviews the modeling of adsorption isotherm systems, emphasizing their importance in environmental chemistry and wastewater treatment. It discusses the characteristics and mathematical derivations of adsorption isotherms, highlighting the advantages of nonlinear models over linearized ones. The paper suggests that advancements in nonlinear isotherms could significantly enhance the field of adsorption science.

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Insights Into Modeling of Adsorption Isotherm Systems: Chemical Engineering Journal January 2010

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Insights into Modeling of Adsorption Isotherm Systems

Article in Chemical Engineering Journal · January 2010


DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2009.09.013

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Chemical Engineering Journal 156 (2010) 2–10

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Chemical Engineering Journal


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Insights into the modeling of adsorption isotherm systems


K.Y. Foo, B.H. Hameed ∗
School of Chemical Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t

Article history: Concern about environmental protection has increased over the years from a global viewpoint. To date,
Received 2 March 2009 the prevalence of adsorption separation in the environmental chemistry remains an aesthetic attention
Received in revised form 6 September 2009 and consideration abroad the nations, owning to its low initial cost, simplicity of design, ease of oper-
Accepted 7 September 2009
ation, insensitivity to toxic substances and complete removal of pollutants even from dilute solutions.
With the renaissance of isotherms modeling, there has been a steadily growing interest in this research
Keywords:
field. Confirming the assertion, this paper presents a state of art review of adsorption isotherms mod-
Adsorption
eling, its fundamental characteristics and mathematical derivations. Moreover, the key advance of the
Isotherm
Linear
error functions, its utilization principles together with the comparisons of linearized and non-linearized
Nonlinear isotherm models have been highlighted and discussed. Conclusively, the expanding of the nonlinear
Error function isotherms represents a potentially viable and powerful tool, leading to the superior improvement in the
area of adsorption science.
© 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

1. Introduction ity, economically viable, technically feasible and socially acceptable


[15].
Over the past several decades, the exponential population A notable trend in the development of activated carbon (AC),
and social civilization expansion, change affluent lifestyles and an adsorbent with its large porous surface area, controllable pore
resources use, and continuing progress of the industrial and tech- structure, thermo-stability and low acid/base reactivity has been
nologies has been accompanied by a sharp modernization and witnesses [16], in terms its versatility for removal of a broad
metropolitan growth [1]. With the rising awareness of the occur- type of organic and inorganic pollutants dissolved in aqueous
rences of industrial activities which has intensified numerous media, even from gaseous environment [17]. Despite its prolific
deteriorations on several ecosystems and seriously threatens the use in adsorption processes, the biggest barrier of its application
human health and environment, the enforcement of stringent rules by the industries is the cost-prohibitive adsorbent and difficul-
and regulations concerning the emission of contaminants from ties associated with regeneration [18]. Realizing the complication,
industrial waste streams by various regulatory agencies has been a growing exploitation to evaluate the feasibility and suitability
promulgated [2]. of natural, renewable and low-cost materials (bamboo dust, peat,
Simultaneously, a developing research by the invention chitosan, lignite, fungi, moss, bark husk, chitin, coir pith, maize
of a wide range of treatment technologies (precipitation, cob, pinewood sawdust, rice husk, sugar cane bagasse, tea leaves,
coagulation–flocculation, sedimentation, flotation, filtration, mem- and sago waste) as alternative adsorbents in water pollution con-
brane processes, electrochemical techniques, biological process, trol, remediation and decontamination processes has been exerted
chemical reactions, adsorption and ion exchange) with varying lev- [19,20].
els of successes has accelerated a dramatic progress in the scientific In the endeavor to explore novel adsorbents in accessing an ideal
community [3–13]. Of major interest, adsorption process, a sur- adsorption system, it is essential to establish the most appropri-
face phenomenon by which a multi-component fluid (gas or liquid) ate adsorption equilibrium correlation [21], which is indispensable
mixture is attracted to the surface of a solid adsorbent and forms for reliable prediction of adsorption parameters and quantitative
attachments via physical or chemical bonds, is recognized as the comparison of adsorbent behavior for different adsorbent systems
most efficient, promising and widely used fundamental approach in (or for varied experimental conditions) [22,23]. In the perspec-
wastewater treatment processes [14], mainly hinges on its simplic- tive, equilibrium relationships, generally known as adsorption
isotherms, describe how pollutants interact with the adsorbent
materials, and thus are critical for optimization of the adsorption
mechanism pathways, expression of the surface properties and
∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +6045996422; fax: +60 45941013. capacities of adsorbents, and effective design of the adsorption
E-mail address: chbassim@eng.usm.my (B.H. Hameed). systems [24,25].

1385-8947/$ – see front matter © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.cej.2009.09.013

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