Haifa A. Alyousef

Activated carbon for multicomponent heavy-metal removal: bridging macroscopic adsorption performance and microscopic statistical-physics modeling

Banana peel-derived activated carbon (BPAC) was synthesized and evaluated for the ternary adsorption of Ni(ii), Cd(ii), and In(iii) from aqueous solutions at 30–50 °C. Experimental isotherms were interpreted using an extended statistical physics model that explicitly accounts for solution-phase interactions and exclude...