TREATED DIATOMITE FOR TOLUIDINE BLUE REMOVAL FROM WASTEWATER. IS IT WORTH IT?

Andrada S.  MĂICĂNEANU; Raluca  PLEȘA CHICINAȘ; Horea  BEDELEAN

doi:10.24193/subbchem.2019.4.04

Authors

Andrada S. MĂICĂNEANU Madia Department of Chemistry, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, USA; Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: sanda.maicaneanu@iup.edu. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6905-3894
Raluca PLEȘA CHICINAȘ Ana Aslan Technical College, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: sanda.maicaneanu@iup.edu.
Horea BEDELEAN Department of Geology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: horia.bedelean@ubbcluj.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8508-5247

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2019.4.04

Keywords:

diatomite, adsorption, toluidine blue, regeneration, kinetics

Abstract

The adsorption of Toluidine Blue (TB) cationic dye was performed using raw and treated (thermal, chemical, thermo-chemical, ultrasonic) diatomite. Solid samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (EDX), and Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Adsorption experiments were performed in batch conditions (20 ± 2°C, 100 mg TB/L, 100 mL, 0.1 g adsorbent). The best sample proved to be the one thermally treated at 250°C for 2 h with an adsorption capacity of 7.97 mg/L and 77% removal efficiency. The regeneration process of the used diatomite was also performed (calcination, HCl, water), the most efficient was the one using water. Kinetic models (pseudo-first-, pseudo-second-order, liquid film, and intra-particle diffusion) were considered to describe the experimental data. The calculated data showed that liquid film diffusion might be rate-determining step in this case.

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