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- Title
Homogeneous Diffusion Solid Model as a Realistic Approach to Describe Adsorption onto Materials with Different Geometries.
- Authors
Sabio, E.; Zamora, F.; González-García, C.; Ledesma, B.; Álvarez-Murillo, A.; Román, S.
- Abstract
In this work, the adsorption kinetics of p-nitrophenol (PNP) onto several commercial activated carbons (ACs) with different textural and geometrical characteristics was studied. For this aim, a homogeneous diffusion solid model (HDSM) was used, which does take the adsorbent shape into account. The HDSM was solved by means of the finite element method (FEM) using the commercial software COMSOL. The different kinetic patterns observed in the experiments carried out can be described by the developed model, which shows that the sharp drop of adsorption rate observed in some samples is caused by the formation of a concentration wave. The model allows one to visualize the changes in concentration taking place in both liquid and solid phases, which enables us to link the kinetic behaviour with the main features of the carbon samples.
- Subjects
ADSORPTION kinetics; ACTIVATED carbon; DIFFUSION; NITROPHENOLS; FINITE element method
- Publication
Nanoscale Research Letters, 2016, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1931-7573
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s11671-016-1746-5