Abstract Adsorption is an important phenomenon widely used for the removal of contaminants. Several drinking water contaminants such as arsenic and fluoride, vanadium chromium, nickel, cadmium cobalt are found to coexist in nature multi-component mixtures water. Hence, modeling adsorption isotherms designing treatment systems has gained importance recently. However, review studies competitive l...

Heavy metals are toxic soil pollutants that are retarded in soils by sorption at the solid phase. At a small scale (of a soil sample), the sorption process can be observed and quantified using sorption isotherms. However, most environmental problems have to be treated and solved at large scales (e.g., a field scale). At the field scale, heavy metal sorption isotherms are commonly highly variabl...

Solute transport with nonlinear adsorption occurs in many situations involving inorganic chemical and metal contamination in soil and groundwater systems. The resulting isotherms can be highly nonlinear, and numerical solutions of the transport equation can encounter severe convergence difficulties. An analytical solution is developed for simulating one-dimensional transport in the layered soil...

We have studied adsorption in regular, self-ordered alumina pores open at both ends or only at one end. The straight, non-connected pores have diameters ranging from 22 to 83 nm, with a relative dispersion below 1% in the pore size. Adsorption isotherms measured in open pores with a torsional microbalance show pronounced hysteresis loops characterized by nearly vertical and parallel adsorption ...

In this study, surface pressure-area isotherms for N-stearoyldopamine (DOPA) and 4-stearylcatechol (ST) monolayers are obtained by means of molecular dynamics simulations and compared to experimental isotherms. The difference between DOPA and ST is an amide group, which is present in the alkyl tails of DOPA molecules. We find a large difference between the isotherms for DOPA and ST monolayers. ...

Complete hydrogen isotherms have been measured using highly stoichiometric, activated LaNi5 over a wide temperature range, 373 K to 228 K. Van’t Hoff plots for hydride formation and decomposition have been constructed using the isotherms in the low temperature range from 228 K to 298 K. The following thermodynamic results have been obtained from these plots: IAHP1., I = 15.4 kJ/ mol ~H2 and lAS...

Palmitic acid (PA) has been found to be a major constituent in marine aerosols, and is commonly used to investigate organic containing atmospheric aerosols, and is therefore used here as a proxy system. Surface pressure-area isotherms ( -A), Brewster angle microscopy (BAM), and vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) were used to observe a PA monolayer during film compression on subphases o...