ADSORPTION ISOTHERM

Adsorption Isotherm is a curve that expresses the

variation in the amount of gas adsorbed by the
adsorbent with pressure at constant temperature.
 often the most important parameter

ADSORPTION
CAPACITY
determines how much adsorbent is required
to accomplish a certain task
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equilibrium value of mass fraction of solute

the mass of solute in the diluent
adsorbed per phase in solute-free
mass of adsorbent basis

Y* 01 X

b 03 c
determined determined
experimentally by experimentally by
plotting log versus plotting log versus log
log X X

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 L A N G M U I R I S OT H E R M

equilibrium value of mass fraction of solute

the mass of solute in the diluent
adsorbed per phase in solute-free
mass of adsorbent basis

Y* 01 X

Ymax 03 KL
maximum amount of
solute adsorbed per a constant
mass of
adsorbent

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