Comment on "the removal of phenolic compounds from aqueous solutions by organophilic bentonite".
Quotation and calculation accuracy can play a key role in a scientific paper. This comment mainly presents the possible errors in an article by Akçay et al., including the questionable expression of Polanyi potential (epsilon) in the Dubinin-Radushkevich (DR) equation used by the authors and the discrepancies in adsorption thermodynamic parameters study.
Fu
Lin
L
College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. healy@mail.nankai.edu.cn
Wang
Jianyou
J
Lu
Huixia
H
Su
Yulong
Y
Ren
Anjuan
A
D000327:Adsorption; D001546:Bentonite / Q000737:chemistry*; D002733:Chlorophenols / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007700:Kinetics; D009596:Nitrophenols / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D019800:Phenol; D012996:Solutions; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
D002733:Chlorophenols; D009596:Nitrophenols; D012996:Solutions; D014867:Water; D001546:Bentonite; D019800:Phenol; C029107:4-chlorophenol; C024836:4-nitrophenol