Adsorption Study for the Removal of Nitrate from Water Using Local Clay

Table 4

Kinetic parameters of pseudo-first order and pseudo-second-order models.

Adsorbent	Pseudo first order			Pseudo second order
	k1 (h^−1)	qe (mg/g)	R^2	k2 (g/mg.h)	qe (mg/g)	R^2
Adsorbent A1	2.014	0.516	0.937	10.542	0.384	0.952