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  • Elovich Equation and modified Second-Order Equation for sorption of cadmium ions onto bone char
    Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 2000
    Co-Authors: Chun Wai Cheung, John F Porter, Gordon Mckay
    Abstract:

    The removal of cadmium ions from water by sortion onto bone char has been studied. Bone char, traditionally used for colour removal in sugar refining, is produced by the carbonisation of animal bone. Batch experiments were carried out to study the effects of initial cadmium ion concentration and bone char mass on the sorption rate. The experimental contact data were analysed using the Elovich model, previously used to describe the kinetics of gas adsorption on solids, and the Ritchie model, a modified Second-Order kinetics Equation. Initial analysis of the data, using the Ritchie model, was poor and therefore a modification was incorporated to make the Ritchie model predictions correlate the experimental data more accurately. Both the Elovich and modified Ritchie Equations accurately predict the sorption capacity of cadmium on bone char, however, the sorption kinetics, derived from the differential forms of the two Equations, were correlated better using the Elovich Equation. (C) 2000 Society of Chemical Industry.

  • a comparison of chemisorption kinetic models applied to pollutant removal on various sorbents
    Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 1998
    Co-Authors: Yuhshan Ho, Gordon Mckay
    Abstract:

    A comparison of kinetic models describing the sorption of pollutants has been reviewed. The rate models evaluated include the Elovich Equation, the pseudo-first order Equation and the pseudo-second order Equation. Results show that chemisorption processes could be rate limiting in the sorption step. The pseudo-second order Equation may be applied for chemisorption processes with a high degree of correlation in several literature cases where a pseudo-first order rate mechanism has been arbitrarily assumed.

J. B. Mcleod - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • On the periodic solutions of a forced Second-Order Equation
    Journal of Nonlinear Science, 1991
    Co-Authors: S. P. Hastings, J. B. Mcleod
    Abstract:

    We study the Equations for two-dimensional irrotational motion induced in a rectangular tank of water which is forced to oscillate horizontally in a periodic fashion (“shallow water sloshing”). The problem reduces to a Second-Order non-autonomous ordinary differential Equation. We rigorously show the existence of many solutions obtained previously by numerical computations, and in addition we show that there are many other bounded solutions. We use simple shooting to obtain irregular solutions of the kind obtained by the methods of dynamical systems. In addition, we obtain a kind of “kneading” theory whereby we can order the initial conditions according to the pattern of “spikes” exhibited by the solutions.

Kostas A. Matis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • adsorptive removal of arsenites by a nanocrystalline hybrid surfactant akaganeite sorbent
    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2006
    Co-Authors: Eleni A. Deliyanni, L Nalbandian, Kostas A. Matis
    Abstract:

    Removal of toxic arsenite ions from aqueous solutions was investigated using an innovative hybrid nanocrystalline surfactant-modified akaganeite. This sorbent was prepared using ferric chloride as the precursor and a cationic surfactant, hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide. From the experimental work, the material was found to be an effective adsorbent for the separation of arsenites. The chemical kinetics of the process was studied, described by a pseudo-Second-Order Equation. The Freundlich adsorption isotherm was determined to examine the mechanism of sorption. FTIR measurements and XPS analysis gave useful information both on the sorbent synthesized and on the arsenite removal process.

Yuanyuan Wang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • An efficient complex‐frequency shifted‐perfectly matched layer for second‐order acoustic wave Equation
    International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2013
    Co-Authors: Youneng Ma, Jinhua Yu, Yuanyuan Wang
    Abstract:

    SUMMARY In the context of simulations of wave propagations in unbounded domain, absorbing boundary conditions are often used to truncate the simulation domain to a finite space. Perfectly matched layer (PML) has proven to be an excellent absorbing boundary conditions. However, as this technique was primarily designed for the first-order Equation system, it cannot be applied to the Second-Order Equation system directly. In this paper, based on a complex-coordinate stretching technique, we developed a novel, efficient auxiliary-differential Equation form of the complex-frequency shifted-PML for the Second-Order Equation system. This facilitates the use of complex-frequency shifted-PML in acoustic simulations based upon wave Equations of Second-Order form. Compared with previous state-of-the-art methods, the proposed one has the advantage of simpler implementation. It is an unsplit-field scheme that can be extended to higher-order discretization schemes conveniently. Numerical results from both homogeneous and heterogeneous computational domains are provided to illustrate the validity of the method. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.