Research Article
Kinetic Model for pH Variation Resulted from Interaction of Aqueous Solution Contaminated with Nickel Ions and Cement Kiln Dust
Table 3
Simulation of predominant mechanisms by different kinetic models.
| Mechanism | Name of model | Parameter | Co (mg/L) | 200 | 400 |
| Precipitation-sorption | First order | qc | 17.03 | 26.19 | k1 | 0.215 | 0.141 | R2 | 0.460 | 0.620 | SSE | 13.99 | 8.92 | nth order | qc | 21.280 | 32.436 | kn | 6.931 ∗ 10−6 | 1.883 ∗ 10−6 | N | 5.397 | 4.967 | R2 | 0.961 | 0.854 | SSE | 0.271 | 2.067 |
| Sorption | First order | qc | 11.12 | 10.11 | k1 | 0.347 | 0.055 | R2 | 0.370 | 0.854 | SSE | 0.160 | 4.040 | nth order | qc | 12.520 | 15.67 | kn | 202 ∗ 10−6 | 6 ∗ 10−6 | n | 8.320 | 4.489 | R2 | 0.973 | 0.974 | SSE | 0.007 | 0.595 |
| Precipitation | Avrami | qc | 16.860 | 11.377 | k1 | 0.166 | 0.319 | a | 1.606 | 0.197 | R2 | 0.969 | 0.964 | SSE | 0.092 | 0.132 |
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