Background: Synthetic dyes are serious pollutants and wide ranges of methods have been employed for their removal from aquatic systems. We studied the adsorption of "Nile blue A" (NBA), an anionic dye, from aqueous solution by oxidized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). Methods: Scanning electron microscope and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were used to characterize ...

In this research, commercial nano-clay (NC) was modified with TiO2 functional groups and characterized via XRD and FTIR methods. The modified nano-clay was applied as an adsorbent for the removal of cadmium from wastewater solutions. The effects of the operating parameters including initial pH, cadmium concentration and adsorbent concentration were analyzed by the Taguchi method. The...

Activated carbons were produced from spent tyre pyrolysis char by steam or CO2 activation and evaluated for their performance in rhodamine B (RhB) adsorption aqueous solutions. The effect of RhB starting concentration (80–150 mg L−1), contact time (0–80 min), temperature (298–318 K) initial pH on the process was examined. Pseudo-first-order pseudo-second-order models carried out to fit experime...

In the present work, the influence of temperature on kinetics and equilibrium of methylene blue sorption from synthetic aqueous solutions, in single dye solutions, using almond peel as a sorbent material has been investigated in batch conditions. Temperature played an important part in sorption phenomenon: the methylene blue sorption increased as temperature increased. The pseudo second-order m...

Expanded graphite nanosheets (EG-nanosheets) were used for adsorption of Malachite Green (MG) from aqueous solution. The influences of dye concentrations, absorbent dosage, pH values and the temperatures on the adsorption were investigated as well. The dye adsorption experiments were carried out by utilizing batch procedure. EG-nanosheets were initially characterized by scanning electron micros...

Expanded graphite nanosheets (EG-nanosheets) were used for adsorption of Malachite Green (MG) from aqueous solution. The influences of dye concentrations, absorbent dosage, pH values and the temperatures on the adsorption were investigated as well. The dye adsorption experiments were carried out by utilizing batch procedure. EG-nanosheets were initially characterized by scanning electron micros...

a series of complexes of the type trans-[co(acacen)(amine)2]clo4, where (acacen) is the (bis(acetyleacetone) ethylenediimine) and the amines are benzyl amine (bzlan) 1, 2-amino pyrimidine (2ampy) 2, n-methylpipirazine (nmpip) 3, 3-methyl pyridine (3mpy) 4, p-toluidine (p-toldn) 5, has been synthesized and characterized by uv-vis. and ft-ir. the kinetics of the substitution reaction of [co(acace...

In this work the feasibility of employing calcareous soil to remove lead (II) ions from its aqueous solutions was investigated under batch mode. The influence of solution pH, sorbent dose, initial lead (II) concentration, contact time, stirring rate and temperature on the removal process were investigated. The lead adsorption was favored with maximum adsorption at pH 6.0. Sorption equilibrium t...