“…Parabolic Rice, 1986, 1955;Do and Mayfield, 1987;Tomida and McCoy, 1987;Do and Nguyen, 1988;Buzanowski and Yang, 1989;Buzanowski and Yang, 1991;Yao and Tien, 1992;Zhang and Ritter, 1997;Botte et al, 1998Botte et al, , 1999Li and Yang, 1999;Serbezov and Sotirchos, 2001;Ritter, 2002a, 2002b), and higher order polynomial (Do and Rice, 1986;Do and Mayfield, 1987;Do and Nguyen, 1988;Yang, 1989, 1991;Li and Yang, 1999;Serbezov and Sotirchos, 2001;Gadre and Ritter, 2002b) concentration profile approximations have all been examined for mathematical simplification, with the intent of providing reasonable approximations to intraparticle adsorption and diffusion. In some cases, only adsorption uptake in a single particle has been considered using a step or square wave function as the constant boundary condition at the particle surface Rice, 1986, 1995;Do and Mayfield, 1987;Tomida and McCoy, 1987;Do and Nguyen, 1988;Zhang and Ritter, 1997;Botte et al, 1998;Botte et al, 1999;Ritter, 2002a, 2002b).…”