Volume 8, Issue 1, September 2014, Pages 43–49
Kassa Belay1 and Akeza Hayelom2
1 Department of Chemistry, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Tigray, P.Box. 50, Ethiopia
2 Adirat University Department of Chemistry, P.O. Box 50, Adigrat, Ethiopia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The effluent water of any industries such as textile, leather, paper, printing, cosmetic, etc. contains large amount of hazardous dyes. There is a huge number of treatment process as well as adsorbent which are available in low cost adsorbents for the removal of hazardous dyes from aqueous waste by adsorption treatment. In this study, thermally treated egg shell was used as an adsorbent for the removal of methyl orange from an aqueous solution. All operating parameters like; adsorbent dose, contact time, particle size and initial concentration of methyl orange were effective on their removal efficiency of the dye.
Author Keywords: Adsorption, egg shell, methyl orange and Uv-vis spectroscopy.
Kassa Belay1 and Akeza Hayelom2
1 Department of Chemistry, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Tigray, P.Box. 50, Ethiopia
2 Adirat University Department of Chemistry, P.O. Box 50, Adigrat, Ethiopia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The effluent water of any industries such as textile, leather, paper, printing, cosmetic, etc. contains large amount of hazardous dyes. There is a huge number of treatment process as well as adsorbent which are available in low cost adsorbents for the removal of hazardous dyes from aqueous waste by adsorption treatment. In this study, thermally treated egg shell was used as an adsorbent for the removal of methyl orange from an aqueous solution. All operating parameters like; adsorbent dose, contact time, particle size and initial concentration of methyl orange were effective on their removal efficiency of the dye.
Author Keywords: Adsorption, egg shell, methyl orange and Uv-vis spectroscopy.
How to Cite this Article
Kassa Belay and Akeza Hayelom, “Removal of Methyl Orange from Aqueous Solutions Using Thermally Treated Egg Shell (Locally Available and Low Cost Biosorbent),” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 43–49, September 2014.
