Table 2. Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models parameters for adsorption of phosphate on the RGO-Zr, Zr(OC3H7)4 and GO at high initial phosphate concentrations.
| Sample | Langmuir model |
Freundlich model |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| qm (mg/g) | kL (L/mg) | R2 | kF | 1/n | R2 | |
| RGO-Zr | 27.71 | 17.19 | 0.9998** | 22.56 | 0.21 | 0.8631** |
| Zr(OC3H7)4 | 23.42 | 85.40 | 0.9999** | 24.02 | 0.15 | 0.9558** |
| GO | 7.49 | 0.50 | 0.9734** | 2.73 | 0.35 | 0.9511** |
Note: ** means correlation analyses of the data by SPSS 19.0 resulted in equations with P < 0.01 (two sides), and revealing the extremely significant correlation between qe and Ce.