Abstract: The mechanism of pore blockage plays an important role in competitive adsorption of trace organic compounds by microporous materials, such as activated carbon. An accurate description of the pore blockage effect of natural ...

Abstract: The bisolute model developed in Part I of this study to describe the effect of pore blockage on trace organic compound adsorption was verified and then used to study the roles of various design and operating variables on ...

Abstract: The models developed in the first part of this study are applied to predict the removal of 4-nitrophenol by powdered activated carbon (PAC) in a bench-scale reactor. A series of continuous-flow filtration experiments were ...

Abstract: Adsorption is modeled when powdered activated carbon (PAC) is applied in continuous-flow reactors followed by membrane filtration units operated without carbon wastage between backwash events. Four reactor configurations ...