Methylene blue adsorption on magnetic alginate/rice husk bio-composite.

Magnetic alginate/rice husk (m-ALG/RH) bio-composite beads prepared with ionotropic gelation method and used for methylene blue (MB) removal. Structural analysis of magnetic alginate/rice husk composite beads was performed using FTIR, SEM-EDS and TGA techniques. The accomplishment of magnetic alginate/rice husk composite beads as an adsorbent for the removal methylene blue was investigated from aqueous solution.

Brouers-Sotolongo fractal kinetics versus fractional derivative kinetics: A new strategy to analyze the pollutants sorption kinetics in porous materials.

This study presents a detailed comparison of the two most popular fractal theories used in the field of kinetics sorption of pollutants in porous materials: the Brouers-Sotolongo model family of kinetics based on the BurrXII statistical distribution and the fractional kinetics based on the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative theory. Using the experimental kinetics data of several studies published recently, it can be concluded that, although these two models both yield very similar results, the Brouers-Sotolongo model is easier to use due to its simpler formal expression and because it enjoys all the properties of a well-known family of distribution functions. We use the opportunity of this study to comment on the information, in particular, the sorption strength, the half-life time, and the time dependent rate, which can be drawn from a complete analysis of measured kinetics using a fractal model.

Kinetic modeling of antibiotic adsorption onto different nanomaterials using the Brouers-Sotolongo fractal equation.

In this study, the kinetic data of the adsorption of two antibiotics onto three nanoadsorbents was modeled using the Brouers-Sotolongo fractal model. The model parameters were calculated at different initial antibiotic concentrations using various approximations of the kinetic equation for two quantities of practical relevance: the sorption power and the half-time characteristic of the sorption. The merits of the nanomaterial were then compared in terms of their application in the elimination of dangerous antibiotic wastes.

Influence of alternating current on the adsorption of indigo carmine.

The main purpose of this work is to study the effect of a new process of accelerating which consist to couple the electrochemical process with the adsorption to remove an anionic dye, the indigo carmine. That is why, we investigated the effects of the new process of accelerating the adsorption process by using alternating current (AC) on the retention of an anionic dye, the indigo carmine. The adsorption capacity of dye (mg/g) was raised with the raise of current voltage in solution, temperature, and initial indigo carmine concentration and decreased with the increase of initial solution pH, current density, and mass of carbon.

Adsorption studies of molasse's wastewaters on activated carbon: modelling with a new fractal kinetic equation and evaluation of kinetic models.

Adsorption kinetic of molasses wastewaters after anaerobic digestion (MSWD) and melanoidin respectively on activated carbon was studied at different pH. The kinetic parameters could be determined using classical kinetic equations and a recently published fractal kinetic equation. A linear form of this equation can also be used to fit adsorption data.