Methylene Blue (MB) adsorption from aqueous phase was investigated using three types of adsorbents. Granular solid adsorbents were prepared from waste wood fly ash and clay. Experiments were conducted in a batch system for determining sorption equilibria. For continuous process, the adsorbents were packed in a column to remove MB from the synthetic wastewater. The fabricated adsorbents and also...

Biochar is widely used as an adsorbent to remove heavy metals from aqueous solutions. To investigate the contribution of soluble minerals (mainly anions) to Pb2+ removal in solution, wheat straw biochar was washed with deionized water to remove soluble minerals. Batch adsorption was conducted using washed biochar (WBC) and unwashed biochar (BC) to absorb Pb2+. After washing, the pH and ash cont...

The binary sorption of copper and nickel ions onto peat has been studied. Equilibrium isotherms have been determined for three di!erent copper : nickel molar concentration ratios. The experimental results have been analysed using an extended multicomponent Langmuir equation with a competition term but the correlation between the experimental and the predicted values was poor. An interaction fac...

The sorption behavior of loofa-immobilized Phanerochaete chrysosporium mycelia in two forms, Live (L) and Heat-Inactivated (HIA), was studied for the removal of Hg2+ ions from aqueous solution. Using the Langmuir isotherm, the two key parameters for the sorption performance, qm and the coefficient b, were obtained; the qm ...

Biosorption is most economical method for removing toxic metals from waste water.The paper presents the results of studies carried out on sorption of zinc ions from aqueous solutions by a coffee industry waste s a low-cost sorbent. It was found that crushed coffee industry waste possess relatively high sorption capacity as 46.05 mg/g, when comparing with other sorbents. The biosorption studies ...

The adsorption of Cr(III) and As(III) by using coal ash from thermal power plants in batch mode ,The effect of adsorbent agitation speed, dose, pH, contact time and agitation speed on the adsorption of Cr(III) and As(III) by coal ash is examined. Adsorption equilibrium was achieved in 50–55 min. The Langmuir, Temkin and Freundlich adsorption isotherms were used to observed sorption phenomena. T...

a mathematical model of sorption of zirconium and hafnium cations mixture and elution of these ions from a cation exchange resin bed is developed. sulfuric acid is selected as the eluent for selective separation of zr and hf in a packed bed of dowex cation exchange resin. the column model is a dispersed plug flow model,and assumed to consist of randomly packed synthetic and spherical resin bead...

The adsorption studies of phenol from aqueous solution on allium sativum peel have been studied in the range of 50-250 mg/L initial phenol concentration .The study was carried out as function of contact time, pH, initial phenol concentration,allium sativum Linn peel dosage and temperature. The experiment demonstrated the maximum phenol was obtained at in pH of 2 and it takes 6h to attain equili...

Arsenic at abandoned mine sites has adversely affected human health in Korea. In this study, the feasibility of using cationic surfactant-modified activated carbon (MAC) to remove As(V) was evaluated in terms of adsorption kinetics, adsorption isotherms, and column experiments. The adsorption of As(V) onto MAC was satisfactorily simulated by the pseudo-second-order kinetics model and Langmuir i...

Emerging contaminant ciprofloxacin (CIP) has been frequently detected in soils. Its interactions with metals in soils remain largely unknown. We examined the effects of metal cations Cu and Ca and surface Fe/Al coating on CIP sorption by preloading Cu and Ca onto sand surface or mixing them with CIP in solution. Batch experiments with sand before and after removing Fe/Al coating on surface (coa...