Table 4.

Constants obtained from kinetic models for TC adsorption.

C0[mg/L]	qe, exp [mg/g]	Pseudo-first order			Pseudo-second order			Intra-particle diffusion
		qe,cal [mg/g]	K1 [min−1]	R2	qe,cal [mg/g]	K2 [min−1]	R2	Kp [mg/g min−0.5]	R2
10	85	4.09	−0.03	0.76	28.58	0.06	0.99	0.72	0.77
20	48.1	6.99	−0.05	0.96	48.01	0.03	0.99	1.1	0.84
50	111.6	20.64	0.031	0.81	112.4	0.011	0.99	3.62	0.77