Asian Journal of Research in Chemistry

Sarita Yadav ¹, D. K. Tyagi ¹, O. P. Yadav ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Chemistry, D.A.V.P.G. College, Dehradun- 248001, Uttrakhand, IN
2 Chemistry Department, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125001, IN

Abstract

Wastewater effluents from textile, paper, tannery and beverage industries are contaminated with variety of pollutants including dyes. Dyes are skin irritant, carcinogenic and can cause allergic dermatitis and mutation. Environmental legislations are now becoming more stringent to control the release of dyes into the environment. Biological treatment of effluent requires a large land area and is constrained by toxicity of some chemicals, and less flexibility in design and operation. Chemical treatments for the removal of dyes from the polluted effluents are not cost effective. Photocatalytic dye degradation techniques suffer from their low efficiency. Adsorption method has been found to be efficient, economical, renewable and eco-friendly solution in treating effluents contaminated with dyes. An overview of the treatments of dye contaminated effluents by biological, chemical and physical methods have been presented.

Keywords

Adsorption, Biological, Chemical, Dyes, Industrial Effluents, Pollutants.

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Sarita Yadav ¹, D. K. Tyagi ¹, O. P. Yadav ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Chemistry, D.A.V.P.G. College, Dehradun- 248001, Uttrakhand, IN
2 Chemistry Department, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125001, IN

Abstract

Kinetic and equilibrium studies for the adsorption of Rhodamine-B dye from aqueous solution onto activated rice husk carbon have been reported. The effect of parameters such as: contact time, dye initial concentration, temperature, adsorbent's amount and particle size on the color removing efficiency of the activated rice husk carbon has been investigated. Kinetics of adsorption of dye at adsorbent in aqueous solution was monitored spectrophotometrically. At the given initial dye concentration, its percent adsorption increases with increase in temperature as well as the adsorbate-adsorbent contact period and the equilibrium was established after 120 minutes. However, at the given temperature, % adsorption of the dye decreases with the increase in its initial concentration. The curves representing adsorption isotherms are single and continuous leading to saturation, suggesting monolayer coverage of the dye on the adsorbent surface. The observed adsorption data was analysed in the light of Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherms. Dye adsorption rate constant (k_ad) follows the first order kinetics. Activation energy (Ea), intra-particle diffusion rate constant and thermodynamic quantities of dye adsorption on the rice-husk carbon have been evaluated and interpreted.

Keywords

Equilibrium, Rhodamine-B, Adsorption, Activation Energy, Thermodynamic.

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