Research Article

Adsorption Equilibrium and Kinetics of the Removal of Ammoniacal Nitrogen by Zeolite X/Activated Carbon Composite Synthesized from Elutrilithe

Table 1

Isotherm parameters of ammoniacal nitrogen adsorption on X/AC at different temperatures.

Isotherm
model
Isotherm constantsAmmonium
30°C35°C40°C

Langmuir (mg/g)35.0435.50
35.91
(L/mg)0.013
0.0180.026
0.9221
0.95710.9512
RMSE1.761.962.29

Freundlich ((mg/g) (L/mg)1/n)
3.233.564.69
0.380.370.34
0.99360.98050.9681
RMSE
0.171.111.34

R-P (L/g)
1.83
(L/mg)β0.28
β
0.62
0.73
0.67
0.9936
0.9867
0.9681
RMSE
0.190.911.64