2017
DOI: 10.1155/2017/8404965
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Removal of Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solution Using Agricultural Residue Walnut Shell: Equilibrium, Kinetic, and Thermodynamic Studies

Abstract: Walnut shell (WS), as an economic and environmental-friendly adsorbent, was utilized to remove methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solutions. The effects of WS particle size, solution pH, adsorbent dosage and contact time, and concentration of NaCl on MB removal were systematically investigated. Under the optimized conditions (i.e., contact time ∼ 2 h, pH ∼ 6, particle size ∼ 80 mesh, dye concentration 20 mg/L, and 1.25 g/L adsorbent), the removal percentages can achieve ∼97.1%, indicating WS was a promising abso… Show more

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“…The results show that the nut shell was very promising at all weights, with R% ranged from 94.87 to 99.29. The results are analogous to the results found by (17), while the C. fluminea was less effective in removing the dye with R% ranged from 47.59 to 55.39, as shown in Table 1 and Fig 2. It is worth mentioning that we used different adsorbent weights because the nut shell gave a very high R% at low weight and vice versa for C. fluminea.…”
Section: Figure 1 the Effects Of The Contact Time On The Adsorption supporting
confidence: 87%
“…The results show that the nut shell was very promising at all weights, with R% ranged from 94.87 to 99.29. The results are analogous to the results found by (17), while the C. fluminea was less effective in removing the dye with R% ranged from 47.59 to 55.39, as shown in Table 1 and Fig 2. It is worth mentioning that we used different adsorbent weights because the nut shell gave a very high R% at low weight and vice versa for C. fluminea.…”
Section: Figure 1 the Effects Of The Contact Time On The Adsorption supporting
confidence: 87%
“…The pseudo-second-order kinetic model evaluates the overall rate of adsorption and based on the factor that the sorption rate was controlled by chemical sorption. In conclusion, the pseudo-second-order kinetic model fitted the adsorption data well and achieved same best fitting kinetic model with other two studies conducted on the removal of methylene blue dye using corn husk powder and removal of RBBR dye using watermelon rinds respectively [18,25].…”
Section: Adsorption Isotherm and Kineticssupporting
confidence: 72%
“…Different agricultural wastes have been used as adsorbent in the removal of pollutants. e agricultural wastes used include straw [8], wheat straw [9], bagasse [10], banana skin [11], walnut shell [12], and coconut shell [13,14]. Among the many promising low-cost materials that are possible to produce a biosorbent is the Moringa oleifera (MO), and its seeds have been used as coagulant and adsorbent for contaminants in water treatment.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%