Notice of RetractionDevelopment of Model for Prediction of Treatment of Organic Wastewater by Organobentonite in Synthesis-Sorption One-Step Process

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The equilibrium relation of solute and solvent and the effect of organic carbon (OC) content on the sorption were utilized to study the sorption of acenaphthene, β-naphthol, phenol and naphthalene to organobentonite at various amounts and kinds surfactants (i.e., cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTMAB), dodecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (DTMAB) and octadecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (OTMAB)). The prediction model for contaminants removal was established by the quantitative relationship between K_ow of organic contaminant and the exchange capacity of organic bentonite with different surfactants. The results showed that the prediction model for the sorption of compounds with high K_ow (e.g., phenanthrene and naphthalene) got a better correlation and a smaller prediction deviation; conversely, a larger prediction deviation was got for the sorption of compounds with a low K_ow (e.g., nitrobenzene).