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

Table 7

Adsorption isotherm parameters for the adsorption of Cu(II) ions onto BAC-P and BAC-Zn adsorbents.

Langmuir
BAC-P			BAC-Zn
Error function	Parameters		Error function	Parameters
		0.5889			0.2251
		0.2040			1.2912
Freundlich
		0.0885			0.1919
		1.1962			1.1364
Elovich
		1.0373			0.0757
		0.1348			3.2154
Sips (Langmuir–Freundlich)
		0.2144			0.2837
		1.1357			1.0822
		2.4341			0.3329