Research Article
Al-Waste-Based Zeolite Adsorbent Used for the Removal of Ammonium from Aqueous Solutions
Table 2
Isotherm models applied for the NH4+ adsorption onto Al-waste-NaP1.
| Two-parameter isotherm model | Error function |
| Langmuir | qmax (mg/g) | kL (L/mg) | R2 | χ2 | RMSE | HYBRID | 46.05 | 0.01 | 0.995 | 3.291 | 0.993 | 25.228 | Freundlich | kF (mg/g)/(mg/L)n | n | R2 | χ2 | RMSE | HYBRID | 2.09 | 0.48 | 0.981 | 2.597 | 1.935 | 35.623 | Temkin | A (L/g) | b (J/mol) | R2 | χ2 | RMSE | HYBRID | 0.50 | 413.74 | 0.901 | 11.384 | 4.453 | 179.190 |
| Three-parameter isotherm model | Error function |
| Sips | qmax (mg/g) | kS × 10−3 (L/mg) | n | R2 | χ2 | RMSE | HYBRID | 54.19 | 6.26 | 0.83 | 0.997 | 0.739 | 0.804 | 9.533 | Toth | qmax (mg/g) | kT × 10−2 (L/mg) | n | R2 | χ2 | RMSE | HYBRID | 58.46 | 1.10 | 0.68 | 0.996 | 0.833 | 0.935 | 10.026 | Redlich–Peterson | kRP (L/g) | aRP (mg/L)−β | β | R2 | χ2 | RMSE | HYBRID | 0.52 | 0.02 | 0.91 | 0.996 | 0.979 | 1.002 | 11.399 |
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