Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 1272-1278.doi: 10.1007/s40242-020-0063-9

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Single and Binary Dye Adsorption of Methylene Blue and Methyl Orange in Alcohol Aqueous Solution via Rice Husk Based Activated Carbon: Kinetics and Equilibrium Studies

LI Ying1, PAN Bo2, MIAO Hongyan1, XU Humin1, LIU Xuefeng1, SHI Gang1   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, P. R. China;
    2. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
  • Received:2020-03-03 Revised:2020-05-18 Online:2020-12-01 Published:2020-12-03
  • Contact: SHI Gang E-mail:shigang0720@126.com
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21501069), the National Key R&D Program During the 13th Five-year Plan of China(No.2016YFD0401405), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (No.JUSRP51626B) and MOE & SAFEA for the "111 Project" of China(No.B13025).

Abstract: The present work was mainly focused on the single and binary adsorption of methylene blue(MB) and methyl orange(MO) from alcohol aqueous solution over rice husk based activated carbon(RHAC). The study of single dye adsorption equilibrium experiments found that the Langmuir adsorption model was consistent with the adsorption behavior of RHAC on MB and MO, indicating that it was a single layer adsorption. The adsorption behavior conformed to the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The binary dye adsorption experiments showed that the Langmuir-Freundlich model could be applied to describe the adsorption behavior of RHAC on MB and MO. Comparation with the single dye system, the adsorption capacity on the binary dye system was larger, and there was "competitive adsorption" and "synergistic adsorption" effects existed. Meanwhile, the pseudo-second-order kinetic model also fit for the binary dye adsorption behavior.

Key words: Rice husk based activated carbon, Single dye adsorption, Binary dye adsorption, Equilibrium adsorption model, Kinetics study