Research Article

Adsorption of Cu (II) on the Surface of Nonconventional Biomass: A Study on Forced Convective Mass Transfer in Packed Bed Column

Table 5

Study of Langmuir, Freundlich, and Temkin isotherm (calculation of model constants and error functions).

Name of the model

Langmuir isotherm (mg/g) (l mg−1)Sum of square errors (SSE)χ 2
For Cu0.0560.15436.3313.34
Freundlich isotherm Sum of square errors (SSE)χ 2
For Cu2.130.93348.1418.9
Temkin isotherm Sum of square errors (SSE)χ 2
For Cu0.027310.2777.8440.36