Kinetics and Equilibrium Studies of the Adsorption of Copper(II) Ions from Industrial Wastewater Using Activated Carbons Derived from Sugarcane Bagasse

Table 2

BET surface area, pore volume, and average pore diameter of BAC-P and BAC-Zn adsorbents.

	BAC-P		BAC-Zn
	Before	After	Before	After
SBET (m^2/g)	427.5	889.9	282.0	588.8
Vmicro (cm^3/g)	0.175	0.318	0.118	0.225
Vtotal (cm^3/g)	0.258	0.454	0.173	0.330
Dp (nm)	2.14	2.11	2.13	2.13