Research Article

A Novel Absorbent of Nano-Fe Loaded Biomass Char and Its Enhanced Adsorption Capacity for Phosphate in Water

Table 1

Pseudo-first-order and Pseudo-second-order adsorption kinetic constants of samples BC and Fe-BC.

Samples (mg/g)Pseudo-first-order modelPseudo-second-order model
(mg/g) ( ) S.D. (%) (mg/g) (g mināˆ’1) S.D. (%)

BC3.583.340.5080.90516.223.520.2110.9679.51
Fe-BC11.9410.580.1350.81332.3011.310.0190.90524.24