Abstract
The present study deals with the adsorptive removal of phenol and resorcinol from aqueous solution onto rice husk ash. The competitive adsorption equilibrium of the binary mixtures (phenol/resorcinol) was determined by conducting batch experiments with initial concentration varying in the range of 50 to 1000 mg/L. In order to evaluate multicomponent adsorption isotherm parameters, individual adsorption equilibrium studies were also carried out. Langmuir, Freundlich and Redlich-Peterson equilibrium isotherm models were used for single compound equilibrium sorption data modeling. All three models almost similar fit for single compound equilibrium data. Binary equilibrium adsorption data and the parameter evaluated from single adsorption data were fitted to various multicomponent isotherm models by minimizing the sum of square of error. The extended Langmuir model gave the better fit to the experimental adsorption data of phenol and resorcinol from binary systems onto rice husk ash. It seems that both phenol and resorcinol compete for the same adsorption sites on rice husk ash. The net interactive effect of phenol and resorcinol on the adsorption of resorcinol by rice husk ash was found to be antagonistic.
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