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INTRODUCTION
The removal of dyes from industrial
effluent is a major problem as Government
legislation
becomes
more
stringent.
Discharge of dye bearing wastewater into
natural streams from textile, paper, carpet
and printing industries has created
significant concern, as dyes impart toxicity
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carbons
offer
an
attractive
and
inexpensiveoption for the removal of
organic and inorganic contaminants from the
water6,7,8. The used activated carbon is
rejected and gets accumulated in many
industries as solid waste. Neither all used
activated carbon can be regenerated, nor it is
economical to do so. Even if some specific
adsorption sites get exhausted, there are
other active sites on such waste activated
carbon available for adsorption of other
materials9.
In the present investigation, the
application of chemically treated withered
Fly ash, Bagasse and Rice husk as a low cost
adsorbent has been reported to be viable for
removing dyes from aqueous solutions. The
effect of various parameters such as contact
time, initial concentration, temperature, dose
and pH has been studied.
EXPERIMENTAL
DYE SOLUTION
Four aqueous solutions of 0.1,1, 10
and 20 mg/l concentrations of each of the
proposed dyes Amaranth, Crystal Violet and
Fluorescein were prepared by dissolving
commercial grade dyes in distilled water.
The dyes were obtained from CDH Pvt. Ltd.,
Qualigens and Thomas Baker.
BG
3.22
6.36
71.73
4.65
1.00
0.25
0.31
0.04
0.04
0.14
0.25
7.84
0.64
1.14
0.62
208
Nil
PREPARATION OF SORBENTS
BATCH STUDIES
Natural and easily available
materials like FA, BG and RH were used as
sorbents for the dyes10. PAC was prepared
from agro waste product treated with hot
distilled water and dried at 1000C, then
reacting 50 g of the product so obtained with
50 ml of conc. H2SO4, then it was
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TABLE:2 Removal
blended with 10%
and at adsorbent
temperature 250C ,
150
Dye
AM
CV
FS
Concn.
mg/l
1
5
10
20
1
5
10
20
1
5
10
20
% of dyes by sorbents at
bentonite concentrations
dose 10 g/l, PH 7.5,
contact time 5h and rpm
FA
BG
RH
78.0
76.4
69.9
67.8
70.7
69.3
69.0
63.2
66.3
64.3
63.0
51.0
75.3
74.5
68.4
67.0
67.4
65.1
64.2
62.4
65.1
63.5
52.0
50.9
74.5
73.6
68.0
66.3
65.9
64.3
62.2
60.1
54.5
53.0
48.5
45.0
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AM
CV
FS
Dose,
g/l
1
5
10
20
1
5
10
20
1
5
10
20
FA
BG
RH
65.6
67.7
69.2
71.5
64.7
65.3
69.0
70.8
55.8
58.8
63.4
65.8
63.8
65.2
68.2
70.3
61.5
63.5
64.4
69.8
48.0
50.2
52.7
62.3
61.6
63.3
68.0
69.2
56.8
59.2
62.2
64.6
43.8
46.0
48.0
58.2
AM
CV
FS
PH
9.0
7.5
6.0
4.5
9.0
7.5
6.0
4.5
9.0
7.5
6.0
4.5
FA
65.5
69.8
62.9
60.2
60.1
69.2
56.2
53.8
49.7
63.7
46.5
41.7
BG
60.1
68.5
58.5
54.4
54.3
64.8
52.1
50.1
47.8
52.9
45.4
41.5
RH
59.2
68.0
56.6
52.2
53.4
62.9
50.7
48.2
44.9
48.2
41.9
40.6
CONCLUSION
The results of present investigation
show that the waste activated carbon has
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