| Abstract: | It is proposed a dynamic model for adsorption of NH4+ ions from ammonia waters on volcanic tuff in a 10‐bed three‐phase (air – ammonia waters – volcanic tuff) fluidization column. The model consists in the nonstationary material balance differential equations. For each layer the ideal well‐mixing conditions are considered. The effluent ammonia ion concentrations, corresponding to each layer, have been measured at several time values in a laboratory‐scale column. The absolute relative mean error between the calculated and measured values of ammonia ion concentrations into liquid phase for all layers and times is 6.65 %, being in the order of magnitude of experimental errors. |
