Natural Palygorskite as an Industrial Dye Remover in Single and Binary Systems

Autor: Marcos Pereira da Silva, Maria do Socorro Ferreira Santos, Maria Rita Moraes Chaves Santos, Luiz de Sousa Santos Júnior, Maria Gardênnia da Fonseca, Edson Cavalcanti da Silva Filho
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Materials Research, Vol 19, Iss 6, Pp 1232-1240 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1516-1439
1980-5373
DOI: 10.1590/1980-5373-mr-2015-0439
Popis: Layered or fibrous clay minerals are used as adsorbents because they have good performance to remove inorganic and organic species. In this work, a Brazilian fibrous clay mineral was applied to remove Remazol Yellow GR industrial dye from simple and binary systems; this was performed in the presence of lead in the latter case. The adsorption efficiency was investigated under various conditions of pH, time, temperature and dye concentration. The experimental data were fitted to the kinetic pseudo-first- and pseudo-second-order models, and the isotherms were fitted to the Langmuir and Freundlich models. The maximum adsorption capacity was 20.08 mg g-1 at pH 2, 240 minutes and 298 K, and these data were better fit by the kinetic pseudo-second-order model. The equilibrium study was fitted to the Langmuir model at 298 K and Freundlich for other temperatures and binary systems. The dye sorption in the presence of lead was decreased to 15 mg g-1. Therefore, palygorskite behaved as a promising solid for treating effluents.
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