Bone Char Adsorption of COD and Colour from Tannery Wastewater: Breakthrough Curve Analysis and Fixed Bed Dynamic Modelling

Table 8

Adams–Bohart model parameters for fixed bed column adsorption of COD and colour onto bone char under different flow rates and bed heights.

Q (mL/min)	H (cm)	COD			Colour
		(L/(min mg) x10^−7)	(mg/L)		(L/(min Pt-Co) x10^−6)	(Pt-Co/L)
2	10	5.95	34,518.57	0.7091	4.12	7,037.56	0.6889
5	10	5.63	66,427.78	0.5875	4.25	11,483.21	0.78
8	10	4.49	77,725.48	0.5388	4.25	14,816.32	0.7356
2	5	9.43	41,710.46	0.6761	4.32	8,741.69	0.6748
2	15	5.51	34,641.13	0.7811	3.51	7,191.30	0.8291