Abstract
Sulfur-containing wastes from industrial operations include both organic and inorganic compounds. Among the conventional wastewater treatment processes that can partially or totally remove organic or inorganic sulfur compounds in industrial wastes, is adsorption. Activated carbon adsorption has gained wide acceptance for removing waste materials, since it adsorbs a great variety of dissolved organics, and since many sulfur compounds are polar, they will adsorb unto the surface of activated carbon. However, because this adsorption is competitive (the organics present in a waste stream compete for the adsorption available sites), the performance of activated carbon in removing specific organosulfur compounds should be evaluated before any design decision is made. To evaluate the effectiveness of any adsorbing unit, the kinetics of multicomponent adsorption should be studied. This paper is concerned in studying (by the use of computer) the kinetics of any adsorption process for any number of pollutants for the highest degree of nonlinearity in the equilibrium isotherm relationships.
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