Isotherm Study of Crystal Violet on Activated Carbon Synthesized from Millet Stover | Journal of Engineering Sciences

Isotherm Study of Crystal Violet on Activated Carbon Synthesized from Millet Stover

Author(s): Salahudeen N.*, Abubakar M.

Affiliation(s): Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Bayero University, Kano 700281, Nigeria

*Corresponding Author’s Address: [email protected]

Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2 (2022)

Dates:
Submitted: March 20, 2022
Accepted for publication: July 22, 2022
Available online: September 5, 2022

Citation:
Salahudeen, N, Abubakar, M. (2022). Isotherm study of crystal violet on activated carbon synthesized from millet stover. Journal of Engineering Sciences, Vol. 9(2), pp. F1-F5, doi: 10.21272/jes.2022.9(2).f1

DOI: 10.21272/jes.2022.9(2).f1

Research Area:  CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Processes in Machines and Devices

Abstract. Continuous release of synthetic dyes from industrial effluent into surface water poses a huge environmental threat and health hazard to humans and aquatic life. The need to right the wrong occasioned by the inimical industrial practice of uncontrolled release of carcinogenic dyes into the surface water calls for research into effective treatment technologies for the treatment of dye-contaminated industrial effluent. The isotherm of Crystal Violet (CV) solution on activated carbon (AC) synthesized from millet stover was investigated and presented herein. Samples of AC were synthesized from millet stover at 120⁰C using phosphoric acid as the activating agent. Employing varying mix ratios of stover-to-phosphoric acid (1:0, 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, and 1:4), respective samples of AC were synthesized. The batch adsorption process of the various samples of the AC in 15 mg/l initial concentration of an aqueous solution of CV was carried out at varying times. The CV’s change in the sorbate’s concentration was monitored using a UV spectrophotometer. The optimum adsorption time was 240 min. The optimally synthesized activated carbon was the 1:2 sample having an equilibrium sorbent concentration of 0.74 mg/L and sorbate uptake of 95.1%. Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin isotherm models were employed for the isotherm analysis. The  values of the Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin models were 0.99, 0.90, and 0.94, respectively. The isotherm constants for the Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin models were –1.52 l/mg, –4.08, and 0.005 l/min, respectively. The Langmuir isotherm model best fitted the adsorption mechanism with a maximum equilibrium adsorption capacity of 14.0 mg/g.

Keywords: millet stover, activated carbon, crystal violet, isotherm model.

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