Magnetic nanosorbents efficiently capture substances, particularly basic dyes, and can be easily recovered using a magnetic field in water treatment. Adsorption is a cost-effective and highly efficient method for basic dye removal. This study compared eight nonlinear kinetic adsorption models using Microsoft Excel 2023, which provided a detailed analysis and statistical results comparable to advanced programs like MATLAB and OriginPro. The Fractal Like-Pseudo First Order (FL-PFO) model showed the best fit for the kinetic adsorption model, closely predicting experimental data at 33.09 mg g−1. This suggests that the diffusion rate of basic dye within the magnetic nanosorbent pores is a crucial factor. The statistical parameters confirmed the suitability of these kinetic adsorption models for describing the observed behavior. Overall, Microsoft Excel emerged as a reliable tool for predicting adsorption behavior using various kinetic models for basic dye removal, offering a wide range of functions for diverse applications, including environmental monitoring and modeling. Corrected Akaike’s information criterion was used to determine the optimal model. It found the lowest AICcorrected value of about −3.8479 for the FL-PFO kinetic model, while the Elovich kinetic adsorption model had the highest AICcorrected value of 29.6605. This indicates that the FL-PFO kinetic model effectively correlated the kinetic data. It can be concluded that Microsoft Excel’s accessibility, familiarity, and broad range of capabilities make it a valuable resource for many aspects of environmental engineering.
The generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution is used to model block maxima and extrapolate beyond the observed range, making adequate tail fit essential. We propose a bounded, tunable goodness-of-fit statistic for the GEV distribution with unknown parameters, based on the probability integral transform and a symmetric weight whose amplitude and concentration are controlled separately. We establish location–scale invariance, an exact relationship with the Cramér–von Mises statistic, a known-parameter limit distribution with closed-form moments, consistency against fixed alternatives, and a composite-null limit conditional on explicit regularity assumptions. Critical values are obtained by a parametric bootstrap that refits the GEV model in every resample; the same calibration is applied to the Kolmogorov–Smirnov, Anderson–Darling, Cramér–von Mises, and upper-tail modified Anderson–Darling tests. Simulations over shape parameters from to and sample sizes from 15 to 100 show no evidence of over-rejection, and the proposed tests are competitive with Anderson–Darling under maximum-likelihood and probability-weighted-moment estimation. All six tests have limited power against subtle upper-tail-only departures. The return-level study shows that rejection can identify samples with greater extrapolation error, whereas non-rejection does not guarantee accurate remote-quantile estimates. Applications to environmental and actuarial block maxima illustrate sensitivity to temporal trend and block length.