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TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 96, Issue 4, Pages 555-568Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02772248.2014.959017
Keywords
adsorption; isotherms; dyes; thermodynamics; dynamics; column studies; chir pine sawdust
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- University Grants Commission, New Delhi
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The efficiency of chir pine sawdust (CPS) for adsorptive removal of the dyes, congo red (CR) and basic violet 1 (BV), from aqueous solution was evaluated using batch and column studies. The equilibrium was attained in 60 min for CR and 45 min for BV. The adsorption of BV obeyed the Langmuir isotherm model while the Freundlich isotherm fitted the equilibrium data of CR adsorption. The Langmuir monolayer adsorption capacities (Q(o)) of CPS for BV and CR were 11.3 and 5.8 g kg(-1), respectively. The kinetic data for CR were best fitted to the Lagergren pseudo-first-order model and for BV to the pseudo-second-order model. The intra-particle diffusion was found to be the rate-controlling step for CR adsorption, while the adsorption kinetics of BV were controlled by both intra-particle and liquid-film diffusion. The thermodynamic parameters indicated that the adsorption process was spontaneous and endothermic in nature. The adsorption activation energy (E-a) for CR (124 kJ mol(-1)) implied chemical adsorption while that for BV (5.4 kJ mol(-1)) indicated physical adsorption. An increase in the Thomas model constant (K-Th) with increasing flow indicated that for both dyes the mass transport resistance decreased during adsorption. Thus, CPS may be an efficient low-cost adsorbent for decolorization of dye-containing wastewaters.
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