Biosorption and Diffusion Modeling of Pb(II) by Malt Bagasse

Table 4

Kinetics model parameters for the biosorption of Pb(II) by malt bagasse.

	Temperature (K)
(exp.) (mg g^−1)	19.0	20.0	20.0
Pseudo-first-order
(cal.) (mg g^−1)	12.5	12.1	18.2
(min^−1)	0.0234	0.0318	0.0793
	0.9624	0.9499	0.9924
Pseudo-second-order
(cal.) (mg g^−1)	20.5	20.8	20.6
(g mg^−1 min^−1)	0.0034	0.0059	0.0104
	0.9995	0.9997	0.9994
(mg g^−1 min^−1)	1.424	2.539	4.413
Elovich
(mg g^−1 min^−1)	1.703	5.475	1.02
(g mg^−1)	0.274	0.312	0.363
	0.9696	0.8965	0.8109