Research Article
Adsorptive Removal of Benzene and Toluene from Aqueous Environments by Cupric Oxide Nanoparticles: Kinetics and Isotherm Studies
Table 2
Isotherm parameters for adsorption of benzene/toluene onto CuO-NPs.
| ā | Benzene | Toluene |
| Langmuir isotherm | (mg/g) | (L/mg) | | (mg/g) | (L/mg) | | 100.24 | 0.1 | 0.9718 | 111.31 | 0.05 | 0.9826 |
| Freundlich isotherm | | | | | | | 11.79 | 0.7 | 0.9836 | 5.88 | 0.76 | 0.9818 |
| Temkin isotherm | | | | | | | | 0.0065 | 0.8678 | | 0.0079 | 0.9144 |
| D-R isotherm | | | | | | | 6.08 | 0.0024 | 0.9812 | 5.84 | 0.0035 | 0.9782 |
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