Table 4 The kinetic models parameters for phosphate adsorption on the RGO-Zr at pH 5.00 ± 0.20 and 298 K.

From: Adsorption of phosphate in water using one-step synthesized zirconium-loaded reduced graphene oxide

C0 (mg/L)

qe,exp (mg/g)

Pseudo-first-order kinetic model

Pseudo-second-order kinetic model

qe,cal (mg/g)

k1 (1/h)

R 2

qe,cal (mg/g)

k2 (g/mgh)

R 2

0.10

3.60

1.64

0.25

0.8123

3.65

1.40

0.9939

0.30

11.11

4.81

0.31

0.6417

11.15

0.19

0.9989

0.50

17.89

11.52

0.14

0.9044

18.08

0.05

0.9987

1.00

4.78

1.34

0.45

0.6670

4.79

5.89

0.9999

3.00

15.36

4.22

0.93

0.9963

15.43

0.95

1.0000

5.00

22.08

6.94

1.94

0.9318

22.07

0.11

0.9997