Hydrothermally Produced Activated Carbon Impregnated with ZnO for the Adsorptive Removal of Toxic Pharmaceutical Contaminants from Aqueous Solution

Table 6

Kinetic model and its parameters for the DS removal by HTC-AC/ZnO.

Type of adsorption kinetics	Parameters	Units	Concentration (mg/L)
			50	100	150	200	250
	, exp	mg/g	25.21	49.11	69.07	86.23	92.27
PFOM		min^−1	0.08477	0.07144	0.06479	0.05832	0.05068
		mg/g	25.69371	51.25704	73.32552	92.64226	102.89611
		—	0.94554	0.93325	0.91824	0.89428	0.8292
PSOM		g·mg^−1·min^−1	0.00326	0.00118	6.83691E − 4	4.40547E − 4	2.97765E − 4
		mg/g	30.63476	63.48749	93.05429	121.01329	140.57596
		—	0.8588	0.86397	0.85626	0.83927	0.78243