Comparison of Adsorption Capability of Activated Carbon and Metal Doped TiO₂ for Geosmin and 2-MIB Removal from Water

Table 5

Pseudo-second order parameters for Geosmin for and 2-MIB analysis.

Adsorbate	Adsorbent	Pseudo-second-order equation parameters
		(mg/g)	(g/mg min)	(mg/g min)
2-MIB	GAC	0.39	0.98	0.12	0.99
	Fe-TiO2	0.58	1.02	0.24	0.99
	Pt-TiO2	0.61	1.10	0.35	0.99
Geosmin	GAC	0.43	0.14	0.15	0.99
	Fe-TiO2	0.62	0.09	0.23	0.98
	Pt-TiO2	0.67	1.04	0.37	0.99