Decolorization of Malachite green dye from wastewater by Populus deltoides: three-level Box–Behnken design optimization, equilibrium, and kinetic studies

Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination

Shahbazi, Afsaneh¹  Zonoz, Farnoosh Bagheri¹ 

[1] Environmental Sciences Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, G.C., Tehran 1983969411, Iran

关键词: adsorption;    desirability function;    Malachite green;    optimization;    poplar sawdust;    recovery;   

DOI  :  10.2166/wrd.2015.085

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

来源: IWA Publishing

【 摘 要 】

Decolorization of Malachite green in aqueous solution by adsorption onto Populus deltoides sawdust (PSD) was optimized through a four-factor, three-level Box–Behnken design in response surface methodology. The influences of four independent variables such as initial pH of solution (3–7), dye concentration (50–300 mg/L), adsorbent dose (0.2–2 g/L), and temperature (23–50 °C) were studied to optimize the condition of dye removal. A natural log transformation was suggested by the Box–Cox plot in order to enhance the model significance. Regression analysis showed good fit of the experimental data to the second-order polynomial model with high coefficient of determination values (R2 = 0.996; Radj.2 = 0.9913; Rpred.2 = 0.9769), F-value of 213.03, and p-value of <0.0001 (α = 0.05). Under optimum values of all the four variables, viz., pH of 6.02, initial dye concentration of 262.6 mg/L, adsorbent dose of 0.23 g/L and temperature of 30.3 °C, the maximum uptake (qe) was noted to be 920.9 mg/g. The experimental equilibrium adsorption data were fitted well to the Langmuir isotherm model (R2 = 0.9949). Kinetic studies revealed that adsorption followed pseudo-second order. It was found that PSD is suitable for reuse four times in successive adsorption-desorption cycles with loss of 25.2% in adsorption capacity.

【 授权许可】

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