Research Article

Optimization of Biosorptive Removal of Dye from Aqueous System by Cone Shell of Calabrian Pine

Table 5

Data of isotherm models for dye biosorption.

ModelEquationParameterValueSD

Freundlich   
23.0384  
3.3796
0.682310.8889

Langmuir  
  

66.0207  

0.3861
0.97823.0842

Dubinin-Radushkevich  
   

69.5042 

3.2686
0.96543.5914

SD: standard deviation, (mg g−1) (L mg−1: a constant related to biosorption capacity, : a constant related to biosorption intensity, (mg g−1): maximum monolayer biosorption capacity, (L mg−1): a constant related to energy of biosorption, : separation factor, (mg g−1): maximum biosorption capacity, (mol2 kJ−2): a constant related to mean free energy of biosorption, : Polanyi potential, and (kJ mol−1): mean free energy.