In this research,static adsorption of three polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs),naphthalene,acenaphthene,and fluorene,from aqueous solutions onto hypercrosslinked polymeric adsorbent within the temperature range of 288-308 K is investigated.Several isotherm equations are correlated with the equilibrium data,and the experimental data is found to fit the Polanyi-Dubinin-Manes model best within the entire range of concentrations,providing evidence that pore-filling is the dominating sorption mechanism for PAHs.The study shows that the molecular size of adsorbates has distinct in-fluence on adsorption capacity of hypercrosslinked polymeric adsorbent for the PAHs;the larger the adsorbate molecular size,the lower the adsorption equilibrium capacity.Based on the Polanyi-Dubinin-Manes model,the molecular size of adsorbates was introduced to adjust the adsorbate molar volume.Plots of qv vs.(σε /Vs) are collapsed to a single correlation curve for different adsorbates on hypercrosslinked polymeric resin.
