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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 167, Issue 1, Pages 35-41Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.11.103
Keywords
Biosorption; Direct dyes; Rice husk; Factorial analysis; Process optimization
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- Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan
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This research work involved the use of factorial experimental design technique to investigate the biosorption of Everdirect Orange-3GL and Direct Blue-67 dyes from aqueous solution on rice husk. A 5(3) full factorial experimental design was employed to study the effect of three factors: initial dye concentration, biosorbent dose and pH at five levels. The efficiency of rice husk for dyes removal has been determined after 3 h of treatment at 30 degrees C using suitable size of biosorbent (0.255 mm). Main and interaction effects were analyzed by analysis of variance (ANOVA). F-test and P-values to define most important process variables affecting the dyes biosorption. The statistical model was best fitted with high coefficient of determination (R-2 = 0.999) for Everdirect Orange-3GL and Direct Blue-67 dyes. The most significant variable was thus found to be pH for both the dyes. FT-IR studies showed that hydroxyl functional groups participated in the biosorption of dyes. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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