Table 6.
Kinetic model fitting for various light sources42.
| Light source | Model | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero-order model C − C0 = k0t (3) |
First-order model Ln(C/C0) = k1t (4) |
Second-order model 1/C − 1/C0 = k2t (5) |
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| k0 (mg/L min) | R2 | k1 (min− 1) |
R2 | k2 (L/mg min) |
R2 | |
| LED lamp | 0.91 | 0.8313 | 0.2408 | 0.9542 | 0.1011 | 0.9919 |
| UV lamp | 0.89 | 0.8250 | 0.2207 | 0.9346 | 0.0809 | 1.0000 |
| Tungsten lamp | 0.81 | 0.8052 | 0.1661 | 0.8700 | 0.04426 | 0.9478 |
| Sunlight | 0.57 | 0.7763 | 0.0844 | 0.7903 | 0.0133 | 0.8081 |
| Dark conditions | 0.55 | 0.8176 | 0.0799 | 0.8470 | 0.01229 | 0.8811 |