Linearized form effect on estimation adsorption parameters of three industrial dyes by lignocellulosic sorbent.

CONTEXT: Textile industries discharge large amounts of untreated colored wastewater into ecosystems which have adverse effects on the human, living and aquatic environment. The aims of this study were: upgrading and testing the brewery waste adsorption affinity towards BEMACID red (B-R), BEMACID yellow (B-Y) and BEZAKTIV black (B-B), verified the effect of linear form modeling on adsorption parameters values and to find the limiting kinetic step in adsorption process. METHODS: The adsorption efficiency of brewery waste towards three textile dyes: B-Y, B-R and B-B is tested. The evolution between the adsorption capacity and the operating conditions such as: pH solution, adsorbent mass, contact time and initial dye concentration is determined by kinetics measurements. Effect of a form of pseudo-first order, six forms of pseudo-second order, a form of intra-particle diffusion and a form of external mass transfer diffusion are tested to the prediction of kinetic parameters and to find the limiting kinetic step. In order to modeling the equilibrium data, a form of Freundlich and five forms of Langmuir isotherms are tested. The residual concentration of dye in solution was measured by spectrophotometer. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was using to investigate the structure of raw adsorbent. RESULTS: The results of kinetics measurements show that the perfect adsorption operating conditions are: acidic medium for all dyes (pH = 2 and pH = 3), low mass adsorbent (m = 40 mg), equilibrium time t = 40 min and for initial concentration of 250 mg/L. Also the results prove that the adsorption mechanism is controlled by both steps of diffusions (interne and extern diffusion) and fitted well by the first and the second linearized form of pseudo-second order model with correlation coefficient R2 = 0.99. The results of isotherms modeling show that the second and the third linearized forms of Langmuir giving the best removed amount for B-Y equal 200 and 219.4 mg/g respectively compared to others linearized forms. CONCLUSION: In summary, the effect of linear forms used either in the medellization of isotherms or kinetic data is significant in the prediction of adsorption parameters, also brewery waste has a significant B-Y dye adsorption affinity compared to others dyes, the descending order of maximum adsorption capacity finding is: qe = 209 mg/g for B-Y, qe = 152 mg/g for B-R and finally qe = 108 mg/g for B-B.

Efficiency of succinylated-olive stone biosorbent on the removal of cadmium ions from aqueous solutions.

Chemical functionalization of olive stone wastes with succinate linkers can potentially improve the performance of wastewater treatment technologies via enhanced adsorption and high affinity of the covalently attached succinate groups for heavy metals. In this study, a novel reusable adsorbent material based on agricultural waste has been synthesized by esterifying the lignocellulosic matrix of olive stones with succinic anhydride in toluene under basic conditions. Characterization of the as-prepared material by FTIR and solid-state MAS (13)C NMR spectroscopies and TGA confirmed that the heterogeneous esterification has proceeded very efficiently to yield the succinylated-olive stone (S-OS). Subsequent alkaline treatment of S-OS with saturated NaHCO(3) aqueous solution led to the resulting sodic material (NaS-OS), which was subjected to batch experiments in order to evaluate its cadmium-removing efficiency from aqueous solutions at realistic concentrations of cadmium found in industrial effluents. The results obtained from the sorption characteristics have revealed that NaS-OS material is highly effective in removing cadmium from aqueous solutions, with a maximum uptake capacity of 200 mg g(-1) (1.78 mmol g(-1)). The Langmuir isotherm model was found to fit adequately the equilibrium isotherm data. Cadmium adsorption occurs rapidly and the adsorption mechanism is a chemical sorption via ionic exchange between the adsorbate and adsorbent. Thermodynamic parameters were also evaluated from the effect of temperature studies. Regenerability of NaS-OS material was ascertained by quantitative desorption of cadmium with 1M aqueous NaCl and the reusability of the matrix after five repeated cycles led to nearly no attenuation in its performance (less than 2% in the sorption capacity), indicating that repeated use of NaS-OS is quite feasible. Compared to other low-cost adsorbents utilized for the removal of Cd(II) from water/wastewater, NaS-OS shows higher sorption capacity. These results have important implications for the design of low-cost adsorbents based on agricultural wastes.

Succinate-bonded cellulose: a regenerable and powerful sorbent for cadmium-removal from spiked high-hardness groundwater.

The primary objective of this work was to evaluate a chemically modified cellulose for the sorption efficiency and selectivity to remove cadmium from spiked high-hardness groundwater. Heterogeneous esterification of cellulose with succinic anhydride in toluene under basic conditions has proceeded very efficiently to yield the succinylated cellulose (SC) with fairly high DS value, as confirmed by FTIR and solid-state MAS (13)C NMR spectroscopies. Deprotonation of the free carboxylic acid group was achieved by alkaline treatment of SC with saturated NaHCO(3) aqueous solution. Batch experiments were carried out on the resulting sodic material (NaSC) to examine its cadmium-removing capability in both distilled water (DW) and spiked groundwater (GW). The results obtained from the sorption characteristics (kinetics, isotherms and pH effect) have revealed that NaSC material is particularly effective in removing cadmium from both DW and GW solutions, with a maximum uptake of 185.2 and 178.6 mg g(-1), respectively. These comparable sorption capacities strongly suggest that NaSC sorbent is highly selective to heavy metal over alkaline earth cations (Ca(2+) and Mg(2+)) and therefore less susceptible to interference from background ions, naturally present in groundwater. On the other hand, cadmium sorption is shown to decrease with a decrease in pH which is indubitably inherent to the competing proton during the ion-exchange process. Furthermore, the material has proven to be efficiently regenerable by using a NaCl brine solution. Thus, the use of the sorbent sequentially to the first regeneration led to nearly no attenuation in the material's capacity for cadmium-removal. Finally, the sorption effectiveness of NaSC is compared to those of other low-cost sorbents so far reported in the literature.

Chemically modified olive stone: a low-cost sorbent for heavy metals and basic dyes removal from aqueous solutions.

In the present work, we have investigated the sorption efficiency of treated olive stones (TOS) towards cadmium and safranine removal from their respective aqueous solutions. TOS material was prepared by treatment of olive stones with concentrated sulfuric acid at room temperature followed up by a subsequent neutralization with 0.1 M NaOH aqueous solution. The resulting material has been thoroughly characterized by SEM, energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX), MAS (13)C NMR, FTIR and physicochemical parameters were calculated. The sorption study of TOS at the solid-liquid interface was investigated using kinetics, sorption isotherms, pH effect and thermodynamic parameters. The preliminary results indicate that TOS exhibit a better efficiency in terms of sorption capacities toward the two pollutants (128.2 and 526.3 mg/g for cadmium and safranine, respectively) than those reported so far in the literature. Moreover, the sorption process is ascertained to occur fast enough so that the equilibrium is reached in less than 15 min of contact time. The results found in the course of this study suggest that ion exchange mechanism is the most appropriate mechanism involved in cadmium and safranine removal. Finally, the sorption efficiency of TOS is compared to those of other low-cost sorbents materials yet described in the literature.