Issue 10, 2015

Enhanced simultaneous removal of malachite green and safranin O by ZnO nanorod-loaded activated carbon: modeling, optimization and adsorption isotherms

Abstract

The simultaneous ultrasonic-assisted adsorption of malachite green (MG) and safranin O (SO) onto ZnO nanorod-loaded activated carbon (ZnO-NR-AC) as a green and safe nanostructured adsorbent was studied. The adsorbent was characterized by SEM, FT-IR and XRD. The dependence of adsorption efficiency on various parameters such as pH, sonication time, adsorbent mass, initial MG concentration and initial SO concentration was investigated by central composite design (CCD) under response surface methodology (RSM). A predictive model was successfully constructed for the suitable description of the real behavior of the adsorption state. The optimum conditions at which the maximum removal of MG (99%) and SO (95%) is achieved in a short time were obtained. The adsorption kinetics and equilibrium isotherm were shown to be well described by the pseudo-second-order kinetic and Langmuir models, respectively. Reasonably high values of 59.17 and 55.25 mg gāˆ’1 for the adsorption capacity of Zn-NR-AC were obtained for the adsorption of MG and SO, respectively.

Graphical abstract: Enhanced simultaneous removal of malachite green and safranin O by ZnO nanorod-loaded activated carbon: modeling, optimization and adsorption isotherms

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 Jun 2015
Accepted
28 Jul 2015
First published
28 Jul 2015

New J. Chem., 2015,39, 7998-8005

Enhanced simultaneous removal of malachite green and safranin O by ZnO nanorod-loaded activated carbon: modeling, optimization and adsorption isotherms

F. Nasiri Azad, M. Ghaedi, K. Dashtian, S. Hajati, A. Goudarzi and M. Jamshidi, New J. Chem., 2015, 39, 7998 DOI: 10.1039/C5NJ01281C

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