Adsorption of Thymol onto Natural Clays of Morocco: Kinetic and Isotherm Studies

Table 5

Pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order kinetic parameters for the adsorption of thymol onto the Rh-P and Rh-CTAB.

		Pseudo-first-order model			Pseudo-second-order model
Sample	qexp (mg/g)	qe (mg/g)	K1 (h^−1)	R^2	qe (mg/g)	K2 (g·mg^−1·h^−1)	R^2
Rh-P	5.89	1.001	0.623	0.636	5.870	1.700	0.998
Rh-CTAB	15.85	0.443	0.730	0.935	15.891	4.747	0.999