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Adsorption of basic fuchsin using waste materials--bottom ash and deoiled soya--as adsorbents.

Gupta VK, Mittal A, Gajbe V, Mittal J

Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, India. vinodfcy@iitr.ernet.in

Basic fuchsin, a triaminotriphenylmethane dye, was removed by adsorption utilizing two waste materials--"bottom ash," a power plant waste material, and "deoiled soya," an agriculture waste product. The adsorbents were characterized through IR spectroscopy and differential thermal analysis (DTA). Batch adsorption experiments were carried out by measuring effects of pH, adsorbate concentration, sieve size, amount of adsorbent, contact time, temperature, etc. The results have been verified on the basis of Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherm models and data obtained have been applied to calculate thermodynamic parameters. Specific rate constants for the processes were calculated by kinetic measurements and a pseudo-second-order adsorption kinetics was observed in each case. To identify whether the ongoing process is particle diffusion or film diffusion, the treatment given by Boyd and Reichenberg was employed. To assess the practical utility of the adsorbent, the aqueous adsorbate samples were eluted through fixed-bed columns of respective adsorbents. Attempts were also made to recover the adsorbed dyes by passing suitable solvent through the columns.

Published 15 January 2008 in J Colloid Interface Sci, 319(1): 30-9.
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