2018
DOI: 10.1080/16583655.2018.1476206
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Utilization of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) rinds as a natural low-cost biosorbent for adsorption of methylene blue: kinetic, equilibrium and thermodynamic studies

Abstract: This work presents the viability of biomass waste watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) rinds (WMR) as low-cost adsorbent for the removal of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solution. The physicochemical properties of WMR were characterized using instrumental analyses such as CHNS-O analyzer, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and point of zero charge (pHpzc) analysis. The kinetic data revealed that the present system obeyed pseudo-second-… Show more

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“…Figure 7 shows the effect of variable pH from 3 to 12 on the adsorption capacity with MB. At lower pH, the surface charge may be positively charged, thus making (H + ) ions compete effectively with dye cations causing a decrease in the amount of dye adsorbed [57]. At higher pH values, the surface of ATBP adopts a negative surface charge, which contributes to enhanced uptake of positively charged dye species via attractive electrostatic attraction, in accordance with an increase in the rate of adsorption [58].…”
Section: Effect Of Phmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Figure 7 shows the effect of variable pH from 3 to 12 on the adsorption capacity with MB. At lower pH, the surface charge may be positively charged, thus making (H + ) ions compete effectively with dye cations causing a decrease in the amount of dye adsorbed [57]. At higher pH values, the surface of ATBP adopts a negative surface charge, which contributes to enhanced uptake of positively charged dye species via attractive electrostatic attraction, in accordance with an increase in the rate of adsorption [58].…”
Section: Effect Of Phmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In batch adsorption, the removal rate of the adsorbate from aqueous solutions is controlled mostly by the transport of dye molecules from the surrounding sites to the interior sites of the adsorbent particles [60]. Hence it can be stated that, the increase of adsorption capacity is mainly determined by the fact that the high initial MB concentration not only provides a large driving force to overcome all mass transfer resistances between the aqueous and solid phases [57], but also determines a higher probability of collision between MB ions and ATBP surface. Additional time was needed to reach equilibrium for higher MB concentration because there was a tendency for MB molecules to penetrate deeper within the interior surface of the ATBP and be adsorbed at active pore sites.…”
Section: Effect Of Phmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The results compiled in Table 3 shows that Langmuir model fitted very well to the experimental data, showing the highest R 2 value compared to Freundlich isotherm. It should be noted that most of the isotherm adsorption studies of MB on various adsorbents follow the Langmuir isotherm model [25][26][27][28] . Values of the adsorption capacities of other adsorbents for MB from the literature are given in Table 4 for comparison.…”
Section: Sorption Isothermsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Natural adsorbents are preferred for their biodegradable, non-toxic nature, low commercial value and highly cost-effective nature. A number of non-conventional and low cost agro wastes sorbents have been tried for removing MB from aqueous solution via adsorption process [25][26][27][28] .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Comparatively, the corn peel after adsorption of RBBR dye outcome in a more even surface compared to after adsorption of RBV5 dye as some binding sites were still available. In overall with the presence of some heterogeneous pores on the surface of the adsorbent, allowed the dye molecules to be adsorbed more due to increase in surface area and homogenous pores also increased the access of binding sites [16]. However, compared to raw watermelon peel, raw corn peel pores seem to be much deep which could provide large surface area for the both dye particles to interact.…”
Section: Characteristics Of Adsorbentsmentioning
confidence: 99%