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DESALINATION AND WATER TREATMENT
Volume 53, Issue 13, Pages 3656-3667Publisher
DESALINATION PUBL
DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2013.877854
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Activation energy; Crystal violet; Adsorption; Activated carbon; Coconut husk
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The present study shows that the H2SO4-modified coconut husk derived activated carbon powder (CHACP) can be used as a potential adsorbent for the removal of crystal violet (CV, basic dye) from aqueous solutions. Experiments were carried out as a function of contact time, concentration, pH, mass dosage, and temperature, the equilibrium was attained in 60 min. The amount of dye uptake (mg/g) was found to increase with increase in dye concentration, pH, temperature, and contact time. The kinetics of CV on to the adsorbent can be described well by pseudo-second order > Elovich > pseudo-first order > intra-particle diffusion equation. The applicability of the isotherm's model for the present data follows the order: Freundlich > Temkin > Langmuir. Based on the calculated thermodynamic parameters such as enthalpy (Delta H degrees), entropy (Delta S degrees), activation energy (E-a), sticking probability (S-*), and Gibbs free energy changes (Delta G degrees), it is noticeable that the sorption of CV dye onto CHACP was a spontaneous and endothermic process. The morphological and chemical characteristics of the adsorbent were established by scanning electron microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.
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