This investigation is designed to apply an advanced kinetic–thermodynamic model on the data obtained from acidic and alkaline corrosion of aluminium using bis- and mono-azo dyes as corrosion inhibitors.
A previously determined thermodynamic model for extraction equilibrium is used as a basis to predict experimentally measured distribution coefficients for the CuSO4–H2SO4–LIX 984–Escaid 103 solvent extraction system at 25 °C and aqueous copper concentrations in the range 0.01–2.0 gL−1, the copper loading isotherm is also obtained.