Journal of Waste Management

Research Article

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

Table 7

Modeling of breakthrough curve.


Flow rate (mL/h)	Bed height (cm)	Bohart-Adams model					Wolborska model
Flow rate (mL/h)	Bed height (cm)	10⁻³ (L/mg/h)	(mg/L)		χ ²	SSE				χ ²	SSE

	15.25	37.88	66.73	0.84	3.26	5.51		6.33	0.55	7.45	10.44
	30.5	36.17	73.33	0.77	4.41	6.63		5.53	0.71	7.88	10.77
109	45.75	32.33	78.17	0.65	5.59	8.55		4.11	0.66	8.55	11.91
	60	30.18	82.77	0.54	3.33	7.08		6.19	0.48	6.70	12.34
	75.25	27.33	88.19	0.71	4.28	6.33		7.88	0.59	7.71	10.11

	15.25	35.38	62.88	0.71	4.43	6.18		5.17	0.77	8.18	11.26
	30.5	33.11	64.11	0.82	5.51	8.22		7.33	0.84	7.55	12.32
160	45.75	30.17	67.02	0.76	3.38	7.84		5.44	0.74	6.92	10.33
	60	27.76	69.38	0.73	3.19	8.92		2.34	0.72	7.73	11.38
	75.25	25.33	71.38	0.55	4.17	9.02		6.11	0.70	7.84	11.93

	15.25	34.18	58.33	0.77	6.33	7.51		1.48	0.66	6.64	5.58
	30.5	31.67	61.24	0.88	7.88	8.44		3.33	0.54	5.53	6.77
296	45.75	28.16	63.48	0.90	8.19	9.19		5.18	0.77	7.73	10.11
	60	25.11	65.19	0.81	8.77	10.11		6.17	0.81	6.66	9.33
	75.25	23.41	67.33	0.71	4.71	7.73		7.12	0.33	4.33	6.33

	15.25	31.77	55.18	0.75	5.55	6.11		3.38	0.48	3.38	5.18
	30.5	28.77	57.04	0.33	5.64	7.91		4.43	0.55	4.41	6.44
318	45.75	25.33	60.09	0.44	7.18	9.22		5.51	0.71	5.53	7.33
	60	22.11	62.88	0.57	8.11	10.16		6.67	0.66	6.33	8.12
	75.25	20.17	64.33	0.66	3.19	11.24		3.38	0.67	7.21	7.07