Research Article

Heavy Metal Adsorption onto Kappaphycus sp. from Aqueous Solutions: The Use of Error Functions for Validation of Isotherm and Kinetics Models

Table 7

Error function data of the isotherm models.

Metal ionIsotherm modelError function
SSEAREHYBRIDEABSMPSD (%)RMSE

Pb2+Langmuir4.43476.71409.39964.203334.71880.97740.792712.63140.94177
Freundlich4.90534.39676.15544.331723.77460.97390.26815.57400.99049
Temkin1.44573.92185.49052.761217.47750.99110.15725.68240.53772
Dubinin-Radushkevich58.324417.050223.870316.553392.02140.59953.895523.87123.41539

Cu2+Langmuir5.79688.581712.01435.380839.35150.96291.028214.13401.07674
Freundlich2.28074.00935.61303.222618.78620.98260.17475.23900.67538
Temkin0.56932.17973.05151.700210.11140.99510.050783.00160.33742
Dubinin-Radushkevich37.557914.629820.481713.392875.46050.64202.715319.73752.74073

Fe2+Langmuir2.34955.40617.56853.643322.55990.97600.27787.18320.68549
Freundlich5.18307.625710.67595.261732.19060.94760.528210.08701.01814
Temkin0.91983.07954.311241.662615.76440.98850.12405.57450.42890
Dubinin-Radushkevich14.972810.141514.19818.537248.95600.79161.193912.99751.73048

Zn2+Langmuir6.48099.678313.54966.063138.68850.93250.862512.67061.13850
Freundlich3.04235.28727.40213.039427.23460.96020.41499.05150.78004
Temkin2.20504.90416.86583.222721.60340.96740.24716.62710.66408
Dubinin-Radushkevich16.471810.998915.39858.842251.80190.73251.396313.83141.81504