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Methylene blue, a prevalent cationic type dye, has been extensively utilized in textile industry. Lignin generates as byproduct and its utilization is required to add potential economic benefit of biorefinery process. Lignin-derived porous biochar, promising adsorbent, was propitiously prepared by chemical modification with different oxidation number manganese compounds (KMnO4, MnSO4, MnO2). Th...

Chemical properties of cationic biosorbents, the orange peel and the lemon peel, have been studied. ATR and Raman spectra indicated that the functional groups in the peels structure responsible for dye sorption are carboxyl groups (COOH and COOM, M=Na,K,Ca,Mg) and hydroxyl groups (OH). Increasing the mass of the peels in water suspensions a decrease in dissociation of both, the –COOH and –COOM ...

The mechanism of Methylene Blue adsorption on acid activated carbon Vitex Negundo Stem (AAVNS) has been studied through batch experiments. Generally, dyes are organic compounds used as coloring products in chemical, textile, paper, printing, leather, plastics and various food industries. The need for the treatment of dye contaminated waste water passed out from the industry. In this study, Vite...

Herein we report the synthesis and optoelectronic characterisation of three deep blue-emitting cationic iridium complexes, of the form [Ir(dFppy)(2)(N^N)]PF(6), bearing biimidazole-type N^N ancillary ligands (dFppyH = 2-(2,4-difluorophenyl)pyridine). Complex 1 contains the parent biimidazole, biim, while 2 contains a dimethylated analog, dMebiim, and 3 contains an ortho-xylyl-tethered biimidzol...

A cellulosic component was extracted from low-value palm tree wastes, empty fruit bunches, and functionalized through grafting with acrylic acid in a previous study. The as-synthesized poly(acrylic acid)/cellulose graft copolymer was applied in the current study as an adsorbent for the removal of the cationic dye methylene blue and the heavy metal lead from industrial wastewater. Factors and pa...

The adsorption of cationic organic dyes (methylene blue, thionine, and thiopyronine) on Qbeta bacteriophage was studied by UV-visible and fluorescence spectroscopy. The dyes have shown a strong affinity to the virus and some have been used as sensitizers for photo-induced inactivation of virus. In the methylene blue concentration range of 0.1-5 microM and at high ratios of dye to virus (greater...

Most of previous papers in the field of dye removal used one dye or dyes with nearly separate spectra that simplifies dyes concentration determination by Beer's law at different λmax. In many real situations, dyes with highly overlapped spectra exist and their concentrations can be determined by multivariate analysis methods. In this study, principal component-wavelet neural network (PC-WNN) wa...

background: the purpose of the present study was to assess the efficiency of ultrasound/hydrogen peroxide processes and ultrasound/hydrogen peroxide/zno nanoparticles in the removal of blue cat 41 dye from aqueous solutions. methods: zno nanoparticles were prepared using the hydrothermal method. variables including ph, concentration of zno nanoparticles, initial dye concentration, concentration...