Equilibrium, Kinetic and Dynamic Modelling of Biosorption Processes

This chapter presents an overview of the different modelling approaches used to represent the equilibrium data of heavy metal biosorption, the kinetics in batch reactors and the dynamics in continuous-flow configurations. For each category the attention was focused on the model architecture as a function of the degree of complexity adopted for the representation of the mechanisms involved.

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