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Kinetics for Removal of Reactive Blue 2 from Aqueous Solution on the Nanoporous Carbon Materials Prepared from Balsamodendron caudatum Wood Waste

B. Sivakumar, chellapandiankannan@gmail.com
Department of Chemistry, Angel College of Engineering and Technology, Tirupur, Tamilnadu, India. P. Shanthi, chellapandiankannan@gmail.com
Department of Chemistry, Kongunadu college of Engineering and Technology, Thottiam, Tamilnadu, India C. Kannan chellapandiankannan@gmail.com
Department of Chemistry, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India.

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Abstract

Balsamodendron caudatum wood waste was employed for the removal of Reactive Blue 2 from aqueous solution under different experimental conditions was investigated. Characterization of activated carbon prepared using Balsamodendron caudatum wood waste by two different processes (BAC1 and BAC₂) was employed. The influences of initial Reactive Blue 2 concentration (20, 40 and 60 mg/L), and temperatures (30°, 45° and 60°C) have been reported. A comparison of kinetic models applied to adsorption of Reactive Blue 2 (CI No 61211) on the each adsorbent was evaluated for pseudo first–order, pseudo second-order and Elovich models respectively. Results show that the pseudo first order kinetic model was found to correlate the experimental data well.

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