Removal of methylene blue from aqueous solution by a carbon-microsilica composite adsorbent

Deyi Zhang; Ying Ma; Huixia Feng; Heming Luo; Jiao Chen; Yuan Hao

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.29, No.6, 775-780, June, 2012

DOI10.1007/s11814-011-0257-4 Export Citation

Removal of methylene blue from aqueous solution by a carbon-microsilica composite adsorbent

Deyi Zhang^{1, 2, †}, Ying Ma², Huixia Feng¹, Heming Luo¹, Jiao Chen¹, and Yuan Hao²

¹College of Petrochemical Technology, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China
²State Key Laboratory of Gansu Advanced Non-ferrous Metal Materials, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China

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Microsilica, one kind of industrial solid waste material, was utilized firstly to prepare a carbon-microsilica composite adsorbent (CMS). The prepared adsorbent was characterized with XPS, SEM and Gas sorption experiments. The results indicated the SO3H groups, which are very effective in capturing cationic organic dye, were introduced onto the surface of CMS; the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area (SBET) and total pore volume (Vtotal) of CMS reach 51m2/g and 0.045 cm3/g, respectively. Meanwhile, the possibility of the utilization of the adsorbent for removal of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solution was investigated. The effect of pH, contact time and initial MB concentration for MB removal were studied. Equilibrium data were modeled using the Langmuir, Freundlich and Dubinin-Radushkevich equations to describe the equilibrium isotherms. It was found that data fit to the Langmuir equation better than the Freundlich equation. Maximum monolayer adsorption capacity was calculated at different temperatures (298, 308, and 318 K) reach 251.81, 283.76 and 309.70 mg/g, respectively. It was observed that adsorption kinetics obeys the pseudo- first-order equation.

Keywords:Carbon;Microsilica;Methylene Blue;Adsorption

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