Journal of Environmental Health Science & Engineering 2006. 3(4):239-246.

"COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF COMMERCIAL AND SEWAGE SLUDGE BASED ACTIVATED CARBONS FOR THE REMOVAL OF TEXTILE DYES FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS "
S. Sreedhar Reddy, B. Kotaiah

Abstract


The sorption of dyes from aqueous solutions on to sludge-based activated carbon have been studied and compared with commercial activated carbon. Adsorption parameters for the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms were determined and the effects of effluent pH, adsorbent dosage, contact time and initial dye concentration were studied. A pseudo-second order kinetic model has been proposed to correlate the experimental data.

Keywords


Kinetics, textile dye, sludge based activated carbon, commercial activated carbon,

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