Synthesis and Characterization of Parthenium hysterophorus-Mediated ZnO Nanoparticles for Methylene Blue Dye Degradation

Table 1

Experimental data fitted assuming pseudo-first-order kinetics and pseudo-second-order kinetic models at different temperatures.

Temperature (K)	Pseudo-first-order kinetics		Pseudo-second-order kinetics
	Rate constant (min^−1)	R^2	Rate constant (min^−1)	R^2
298	−0.00271	−0.98203	0.00552	0.97305
308	−0.00339	−0.97307	0.0074	0.95715
318	−0.00385	−0.99156	0.00886	0.98896
328	−0.00483	−0.99318	0.01238	0.98201
338	−0.00529	−0.99532	0.0154	0.99618