Adsorption of Cu (II) on the Surface of Nonconventional Biomass: A Study on Forced Convective Mass Transfer in Packed Bed Column

Table 6

Influence of flow rate (mL/h) and height of column on sorption of Zn (II) ion.

Flow rate (mL/h)	Height of column	Mass transfer zone (MTZ, cm)	𝑞𝑠 (mg/g)	𝑞tb (mg/g)	χ ^2 (𝑞𝑠)	χ ^2 (𝑞tb)	SSE (𝑞𝑠)	SSE (𝑞tb)
	15.25	3.38	55.63	53.18	0.01	0.07	0.16	0.29
	30.5	11.33	53.11	50.11	0.04	0.05	0.18	0.33
109	45.75	29.33	50.33	48.67	0.09	0.07	0.19	0.14
	60	47.88	46.77	43.77	0.33	0.04	0.91	0.11
	75.5	62.38	42.11	39.19	0.14	0.05	0.41	0.21
	15.25	4.41	52.88	47.33	0.04	0.06	0.33	0.31
	30.5	14.55	48.11	44.56	0.06	0.05	0.15	0.18
160	45.75	32.87	46.17	42.11	0.09	0.09	0.18	0.22
	60	49.77	42.13	40.19	0.11	0.06	0.13	0.17
	75.5	64.33	40.19	37.33	0.19	0.17	0.19	0.11
	15.25	5.58	50.13	46.41	0.02	0.09	0.51	0.77
	30.5	16.71	46.18	42.19	0.07	0.19	0.17	0.11
296	45.75	33.14	44.11	40.33	0.11	0.36	0.18	0.88
	60	53.44	40.19	38.11	0.31	0.44	0.55	0.55
	75.5	67.18	38.11	35.22	0.44	0.91	0.19	0.33
	15.25	6.77	48.13	43.18	0.07	0.77	0.44	0.11
	30.5	19.33	46.13	39.11	0.17	0.34	0.15	0.77
318	45.75	37.44	42.17	35.15	0.08	0.51	0.66	0.19
	60	48.11	38.17	34.11	0.04	0.66	0.17	0.87
	75.5	70.14	33.11	30.18	0.05	0.54	0.18	0.73