“…The first ones are the non-structural models which may agree quite well with the experimental data; nonetheless, these do not include parameters describing adsorbent structure and are thus more or less of an interpolative nature. Among these are the Thomas model (Han et al, 2007) and models based on the law of mass action (Moraes et al, 2009;Papini et al, 1999), applied to a wide range of adsorption processes of metals (Papini et al, 1999), heterocyclic compounds (Han et al, 2007), and enzymes (Moraes et al, 2009). The second subgroup are the structural models, which usually also agree quite well with experimental data and include parameters describing adsorbent structure such as adsorbent particle size (Dadwhal et al, 2009;Forrer et al, 2008;Quek and Al-Duri, 2007), micro-particle size (Dadwhal et al, 2009), particle size distribution (Du et al, 2007) or other characteristic dimensions (Zabka et al, 2006), and are thus more of an extrapolative nature.…”