title: Adsorption studies of molasse's wastewaters on activated carbon: modelling with a new fractal kinetic equation and evaluation of kinetic models.
abstract: Adsorption kinetic of molasses wastewaters after anaerobic digestion (MSWD) and melanoidin respectively on activated carbon was studied at different pH. The kinetic parameters could be determined using classical kinetic equations and a recently published fractal kinetic equation. A linear form of this equation can also be used to fit adsorption data. Even with lower correlation coefficients the fractal kinetic equation gives lower normalized standard deviation values than the pseudo-second order model generally used to fit adsorption kinetic data, indicating that the fractal kinetic model is much more accurate for describing the kinetic adsorption data than the pseudo-second order kinetic model.
authors.affiliation: COVACHIM, EA 3592, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, BP 250, 97157 Pointe à Pitre Cedex, Guadeloupe.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Figaro
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Avril
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brouers
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ouensanga
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gaspard
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D017709:Fractals; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007220:Industrial Waste; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D008965:Molasses; D009038:Motion; D011208:Powders; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013499:Surface Properties; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D007220:Industrial Waste; D011208:Powders; D002244:Carbon