title: Kinetic studies of copper ion adsorption on palm kernel fibre.
abstract: Palm kernel fibre is a common agricultural waste in West Africa and its use as an adsorbent for the removal of copper ions from aqueous solution has been studied. Batch kinetics studies were carried out based on the assumption of the pseudo-second-order kinetic model, which was developed to predict the rate constant of adsorption, the equilibrium adsorption capacity and initial adsorption rate with the effect of initial copper concentration and reaction temperature. A comparison was made of the linear least-squares method and a trial-and-error non-linear method of the pseudo-second-order kinetic model for the adsorption of copper onto palm kernel fibre.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China. dr_ysho@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Yuh-Shan
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Augustine E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Ofomaja
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D028023:Arecaceae / Q000737:chemistry*; D003300:Copper / Q000737:chemistry*; D007477:Ions / Q000737:chemistry; D007700:Kinetics; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D007477:Ions; D003300:Copper