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Adsorption and desorption cycles of reactive blue BF-5G dye in a bone char fixed-bed column

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In the textile industry, the amount of dye unfixed in fabrics is discarded with wastewaters. Effluents of this nature can be treated efficiently by adsorption on activated bone char, but the reuse of adsorbent is necessary for the technique to be economically feasible. Therefore, the objective of this work was to study the process of desorption of BF-5G blue dye from a bone char fixed-bed column. Solutions of sodium chloride, acetic acid and ethyl alcohol were tested as regenerating agents. Due to the hydrophobicity effect of organic solvent molecules, the highest desorption capacity was observed for ethyl alcohol solution, and the fixed bed was reused after six cycles of adsorption. The other solutions did not promote significant desorption. The results showed that adsorption of the dye involved irreversible interactions between adsorbate molecules and bone char. However, the use of acetic acid solution resulted in the neutralisation of some of the adsorbent surface charges, allowing the fixed bed to operate for a longer time in the second cycle than in the first.

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    Celso Hissao Maeda, Carina Akemi Araki, Artur Lemes Moretti, Maria Angélica Simões Dornellas de Barros & Pedro Augusto Arroyo

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Maeda, C.H., Araki, C.A., Moretti, A.L. et al. Adsorption and desorption cycles of reactive blue BF-5G dye in a bone char fixed-bed column. Environ Sci Pollut Res 26, 28500–28509 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3644-0

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