Error Anlaysis Studies of Dye Adsorption onto Activated Carbon from Aqueous Solutions

Abstract

Adsorption of tartrazine and methylene blue from aqueous solution onto activated carbon has been investigated. Experimental datas obtained from dye adsorption have been studied by five two-parameter (Langmuir, Freundlich, Dubinin-Radushkevich, Temkin, and Frumkin), five three-parameter (Redlich-Peterson, Sips, Toth, Radke-Prausnitz, Koble-Corrigan) isotherm models. In this study, eight nonlinear error functions (sum squares errors, hybrid fractional error function, Marquardt's percent standard deviation, average relative error, sum of absolute error, the coefficient of determination, nonlinear chi-square test, and standard deviation of relative errors) were examined for isotherm equations. In order to clarify the adsorption kinetics fit of pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order kinetic models were used. The best fitting isotherm model was the Radke-Prausnitz and kinetics model was pseudo-second order for two dyes. Adsorption experiment showed that the maximum capacity of activated carbon's for methylene blue and tartrazine were 28.571 and 18.182 mg.g−1, respectively.