Table 3.
Experimental | PFORE | PSORE | ||||||
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Metal | Sorbent | qexp (mmol·g−1) | K1 (h−1) | q1 (mmol·g−1) | r2 | K2 (g∙mmol−1∙h−1) | q2 (mmol·g−1) | r2 |
Hg(II) | Air dried beads (AD) | 1.71 | 1.44 | 1.57 | 0.983 | 1.18 | 1.69 | 0.991 |
Freeze dried beads (FD) | 1.70 | 1.36 | 1.53 | 0.977 | 1.12 | 1.65 | 0.995 | |
Pb(II) | Freeze dried beads (FD) | 0.64 | 2.09 | 0.63 | 0.930 | 4.94 | 0.679 | 0.945 |