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A modified bentonite was prepared at different surfactant (ODTMA) loadings through ion exchange. The obtained organobentonite adsorbent materials were then used for the removal of an anionic dye, tartrazine, from an aqueous solution. The bentonite was characterized by X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method. The modification of organophilic bentonite by ODTMA increases the basal spacing d 001 from 24.1 to 39.1 Å when the cation exchange capacity increases from 1 to 4. The increase in the spacing, due to the basic organic modifications, was confirmed by the results of thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and BET. The effects of contact time, initial concentration, and solution pH onto an adsorbed amount of tartrazine were investigated. To predict adsorption isotherm, the experimental data were analyzed using the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm equations. It was determined that the isotherm data were fitted to the Langmuir isotherm. The adsorption process was also found to follow a pseudo-secondorder kinetic model.

A B S T R A C TTo obtain new materials, we modified Algerian halloysite by thermal activation (HalC), acid activation (HalA), combined thermal-acid activation (HalCA) and acid-thermal activation. X-ray diffraction, Fourier Transform infrared and BET textural analysis were used to characterize changes. After the HalC of halloysite at 600˚C, no XRD peaks were shown and a total disappearance of the absorption bands ranging from 3,700 to 3,600 cm −1 . The treatment of halloysite by sulphuric acid increases the surface area from 185.4 to 321.0 m 2 /g. Halloysite is first calcined and then activated by acid, its surface area increases from 74.3 to 538.6 m 2 /g. The effect of initial pH, adsorbent dose, contact time and temperature on the removal of 2,4,5-trichlorophenol (TCP) by modified halloysite samples was investigated. Equilibrium data were fitted to the Langmuir, Freundlich and Toth models. The best fit of the cited models was the Freundlich model, which suggested infinite adsorption onto heterogeneous surface. The pseudo-first-order, pseudo-second-order and intraparticle diffusion models were applied to the experimental kinetic data. The results showed that the pseudo-second-order is the best model to describe the process. The study of thermodynamic parameters shows that the process of adsorption of TCP onto the prepared samples was spontaneous, endothermic and physical in nature.

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