Abstract
Introduction: Water pollution is a serious issue in several countries. In addition, because of limited water resources, the recycling of wastewater is crucial. Consequently, new and effective sorbents are required to reduce the cost of wastewater treatment as well as to mitigate the health problems caused by water pollution. Methods: In this study, the removal of Methyl Orange (MO) dye from wastewater using a chitosan-iso-vanillin polymer was evaluated. The removal of MO from an aqueous solution was studied in a batch system, using the modified chitosan polymer. Results: The results indicate that the removal of MO by the modified chitosan was affected by the solution pH, sorbent dosage, initial MO concentration, contact time, and temperature. The experimental data were fitted to the Langmuir, Freundlich, and Temkin isotherms, and Freundlich isotherm showed the best fit. The kinetic data were fitted to the pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order rate equations. Thus, the removal of MO was controlled via chemisorption, and the removal rate was 97.9% after 3 h at an initial MO concentration of 100 ppm and a sorbent dose of 0.05 g. The adsorption behavior of the modified chitosan for the removal of MO was well-described using the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. Intraparticle diffusion analysis was also conducted, and the thermodynamic properties, including entropy (∆S), enthalpy (∆H), and free energy (∆G), were determined. Conclusion: The pH, initial MO concentration, sorbent dosage, adsorption temperature, and contact time had a significant effect on the adsorption of MO by chitosan-iso-vanillin.
Highlights
Water pollution is a serious issue in several countries
We investigated the use of a low-cost chitosan-iso-vanillin biosorbent material for the removal of Methyl Orange (MO) from wastewater and conducted batch equilibrium studies to determine the thermodynamic and kinetic parameters
The main objective of this study was to evaluate the removal of MO dye from wastewater using chitosan-iso-vanillin
Summary
Water pollution is a serious issue in several countries. Because of limited water resources, the recycling of wastewater is crucial. New and effective sorbents are required to reduce the cost of wastewater treatment as well as to mitigate the health problems caused by water pollution. Water pollution caused by organic pollutants has become a serious global environmental problem. Dyes are one of the most commonly used organic substances causing water pollution and harming human health when they leak into the aquatic environment [1]. The removal of poisonous dyes from water bodies presents a major challenge. Sejie and Goncalves [3, 4] reported several methods to purify water, such as coagulation, ozonation, flocculation, adsorption, and reverse osmosis. The method of pollutant removal is determined according to the nature of the pollutants, which may originate from the pharmaceutical, printing, food, textile, and chemical industries [5]
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