Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 5944-5954Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-018-3980-0
Keywords
Adsorption; Anionic dye; Calcination; Oyster shell
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- Department of Science & Technology of Hunan Province of China [2017JJ2029]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51478172, 51508538]
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Oyster shells are a type of biogenic materials with excellent characteristics in surface area, porosity, sorption capacity, and high concentration of CaCO3 (up to 90wt%), and can be easily converted into a calcium-based alkali adsorbent. In this research, oyster shells calcined at 900 degrees C were applied as an adsorbent for acid green 25 (AG25) removal from aqueous solutions. The adsorption performances were evaluated, and the FTIR, SEM, and BET techniques were employed to characterize this material. Results showed that AG25 removal performance depended on adsorbent dosage, pH, adsorption temperature, contact time, and initial concentration. Adsorption capacity was maximized at 34.1mgg(-1) at pH of 11.0, an adsorbent dosage of 2.0gL(-1), an AG25 concentration of 70mgL(-1), and adsorption temperature of 40 degrees C. Both the Ho-McKay model and the pseudo-second-order model correlated with the adsorption kinetics well with the values of R-2>0.99 (closer to unity). The Langmuir isotherm showed an excellent correlation coefficient of R-2>0.99 with the equilibrium data. The thermodynamics study indicates that the adsorption was spontaneous and endothermic. These results demonstrate that the calcined oyster shells has the potential to be used as an eco-friendly and low-cost effective adsorbent for anionic dye removal from water.
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