The Efficient Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Industry Effluents Using Waste Biomass as Low-Cost Adsorbent: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Models

Ponnuswamy, Indhumathi; Sathiyaraj, Subbaiyan; P. Koelmel, Jeremy; U. Shoba, Srinivasan; Jayabalakrishnan, Chinnasamy; Saravanabhavan, Munusamy

doi:10.1515/zpch-2016-0900

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The Efficient Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Industry Effluents Using Waste Biomass as Low-Cost Adsorbent: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Models

Published in Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie • Nov 22, 2017

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Indhumathi Ponnuswamy

Subbaiyan Sathiyaraj

Jeremy P. Koelmel

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Abstract The ability of green micro algae Chlorella vulgaris for biosorption of Cu(II) ions from an aqueous solution was studied. The biosorption process was affected by the solution pH, contact time, temperature and initial Cu(II) concentration. Experimental data were analyzed in terms of pseudo-fi...

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Biosorption

Sorption

Freundlich equation

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