Journal
APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 185, Issue 4, Pages 971-985Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12010-018-2699-1
Keywords
Kitchen waste hydrolysis residue; Dye wastewater; Methylene blue; Adsorption; Bioresource utilization
Funding
- Basic Application Program of Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province [2015JY0241]
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Kitchen waste hydrolysis residue (KWHR), which is produced in the bioproduction process from kitchen waste (KW), is usually wasted with potential threats to the environment. Herein, experiments were carried out to evaluate the potential of KWHR as adsorbent for dye (methylene blue, MB) removal from aqueous solution. The adsorbent was characterized using FT-IR and SEM. Adsorption results showed that the operating variables had great effects on the removal efficiency of MB. Kinetic study indicated pseudo-second-order model was suitable to describe the adsorption process. Afterwards, the equilibrium data were well fitted by using Langmuir isotherm model, suggesting a monolayer adsorption. The Langmuir monolayer adsorption capacity was calculated to be 110.13 mg/g, a level comparable to some other low-cost adsorbents. It was found that the adsorption process of MB onto KWHR was spontaneous and exothermic through the estimation of thermodynamic parameters. Thus, KWHR was of great potential to be an alternative adsorbent material to improve the utilization efficiency of bioresource (KW) and lower the cost of adsorbent for color treatment.
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