Banana peel, a discarded agricultural waste was used to produce bioadsorbent through easy and environmental friendly processes. This banana peel based biosorbent was evaluated for adsorptive removal of copper from water and its desorption capability. The characterisation results showed this biosorbent had very high specific surface area, potential binding sites and functional groups. The optima...

The problem of equilibrium and kinetics for adsorption] desorption of condensable ®apors in porous media is studied experimentally and theoretically. For adsorption, the ( network model for diffusion based on pore blocking theory with percolation in the ) network added by effecti®e medium approximation is further impro®ed. A new predicti®e model based on properties of the Bethe lattices is prop...

Divalent cationic strontium (Sr2~-l adsorption to and desorption from iron corrosion products were examined in two model drinking water distribution systems (DWDS). One system was maintained with chlorine-disinfected drinking water and the other with the same water with secondary chloramine disinfection. Flow conditions simulated primary transmission lines (constant flow) and residential mains ...

in the present investigation, a novel adsorbent, ionic liquid modified magnetic nanoparticles (il-fe3o4), was successfully synthesized and characterized by ft-ir spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (tga), xrd analysis, scanning electron microscopy (sem) and theory of brunauer, emmett, and teller (bet) for removal of reactive orange 122 (ro-122) from aqueous solutions. the effects of variou...

Enhanced specificity in drug delivery aims to improve upon systemic elution methods by locally concentrating therapeutic agents and reducing negative side effects. Due to their robust physical properties, biocompatibility and drug loading capabilities, nanodiamonds serve as drug delivery platforms that can be applied towards the elution of a broad range of therapeutically-active compounds. In t...

varieties of st. john’s wort (hypericum perforatum l.) native to iran possess the largest percentage of hypercin in their leaves and flowers. isotherm curves show the relationship between the relative humidity and moisture content of the plant at a constant temperature. it is essential to understand the isotherms curves for successful storage and drying of the plant. this study used adsorption ...

in this study, bimodal meso-porous silica (uvm-7) synthesized and fabricated amino silane modified supports were characterized by powder x-ray diffraction (xrd), n2 adsorption/desorption, transmission electron microscope (tem), elemental analysis and titration. capacity of co2 capture on modified bimodal pore structure silica at 70°c was calculated using breakthrough curves; and it was found th...

The adsorption and desorption properties of SQD-85 resin for Cu(II) had been investigated. A series of experiments were conducted in a batch system to assess the effect of the system variables, i.e. initial pH, contact time and temperature. The results show that the optimal pH for the adsorption was 5.99 in the HAc-NaAc system, and the maximum adsorption capacity was estimated to 324 mg/g a...

A continuous-flow adsorption/desorption process for the recovery of phenolic compounds (PCs) from olive mill wastewaters (OMWs) was developed in a 0.53 m packed column, using a previously selected resin (Amberlite XAD16) and an actual OMW. The goals of the study were (i) to optimize the OMW pre-treatment step, (ii) to optimize the resin packing procedure, (iii) to evaluate the PC adsorption/des...

We present a study on the kinetics of oxygen adsorption and desorption from single-wall carbon nanotube ~SWNT! and highly oriented pyrolytic graphite ~HOPG! samples. Thermal-desorption spectra for SWNT samples show a broad desorption feature peaked at 62 K, which is shifted to a significantly higher temperature than the low-coverage desorption feature on HOPG. The low-coverage O2 binding energy...