4.4.1 Breakthrough model validation
In order to validate the model (see Eq. 3.8-3.12), the obtained results from the adsorption breakthrough curve model are compared with the experimental results, see Figure 5. The calculated breakthrough curve agrees reasonably well with the experimentally observed curve. The proposed breakthrough curve model is able to predict the saturation time, ts, of the adsorption column. tsis the time at which \(\frac{C_{\text{trans}}}{C_{trans0}}=0.05\).