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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 146, Issue 1-2, Pages 214-226Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2006.12.010
Keywords
biosorption; methylene blue; Paspalum notatum; kinetics; equilibrium; mechanism; isotherm
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Batch experiments were carried out for the sorption of methylene blue onto Paspalum notatum. The operating variables studied were initial dye concentration, initial solution pH, adsorbent dosage and contact time. Experimental equilibrium data were fitted to Freundlich, Langmuir and Redlich-Peterson isotherms by non-linear regression method. Six error functions was used to determine the optimum isotherm by non-linear regression method. The present study shows r(2) as the best error function to determine the parameters involved in both two- and three-parameter isotherms. Langmuir isotherm was found to be the optimum isotherm for methylene blue onto Paspalum notatum. The monolayer methylene blue sorption capacity of P. notatum was found to be 31 mg/g. The kinetics of methylene blue onto P. notatum was found to follow a pseudo second order kinetics. A Boyd plot confirms the external mass transfer as the rate-limiting step in the dye sorption process. The influence of initial dye concentration on the dye sorption process was represented in the form of dimensionless mass transfer numbers (Sh/Sc-0.33) and was found to vary as C-0(-5x10-6) (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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