Simulation of Low-Concentration Heavy Metal Removal from Industrial Effluents with a Bulk Liquid Membrane Using MATLAB

Abstract

Mathematical models have been observed and utilized in many sciences, especially in engineering. They are used to simulate various processes in many chemical engineering sciences. In general, the determination of kinetic parameters for the transports of a bulk liquid membrane process is important because it supplies basic information for the system. Mathematical modeling is simple and easily achievable without the need for a practical experimental system, and therefore, it has attracted growing attention in recent decades. This paper describes the kinetics of transport mechanisms of heavy metals, and a mathematical model explains the behavior of bulk liquid membrane. A simulation has made on the results of practical experiments, but with wider limits, and a control system was built in a fuzzy logic control method, design and programming a software interface (Zainab_gui) that includes the process of separating heavy metals by bulk liquid membrane and includes all the variables that affect the separation by using MATLAB.