Estimation of Specific Surface Area using Langmuir Isotherm Method

Abstract

A comparison of four widely used linear equations of the Langmuir types of isotherm (The Langmuir Type 1, 2, 3 and 4 ) were examined in an experiment using dye sorption onto derived acid and salt treated Fish Activated Carbon (H 3 PO 4 -FAC and ZnCl 2 -FAC respectively). Isotherm parameters obtained from the four Langmuir linear equations differed. Though Langmuir type 1 is the most popular form, but the type 2 had the highest coefficient of determination (R 2 = 0.931-0.984) compared with the other Langmuir linear equations (with R 2 values ranges of 0.696-0.982, 0.613-0.926 and 0.613-0.926 for Langmuir type 1,3 and 4 isotherm models respectively). 3,7 bis(dimethylamino) phenothiazin-5-ium ion was used to measure the Extent of monolayer coverage (q m ) and specific surface areas (S MB ) following the application of type 1 isotherm. From this study, Value obtained for the Acid treated carbon (H 3 PO 4 -FAC with S MB ; 18.170) is higher than that of the Salt treated carbon, (ZnCl 2 -FAC, S MB ; 13.579) which compared more to that of commercial carbon, CAC (S MB ; 13.884) units in multiple of 10 -3 km 2 kg -1 . The reliability of the Langmuir type 1 and 2 methods seems very good in specific surface area estimation. @JASEM J. Appl. Sci. Environ. Manage . December, 2010, Vol. 14 (4) 141 - 145