Upcycling of sugar refining mud solid waste as a novel adsorbent for removing methylene blue and Congo red from wastewater
Aly Reda, Abdel-Ghafar El-Demerdash, Wagih A. Sadik, Essam El Rafy, Tamer Shoeib
Abstract
for MB and CR, respectively. High regeneration and reusability potential of the MSW was demonstrated especially for the adsorption of CR, where the removal efficiency was nearly constant throughout five adsorption cycles, ranging from 93 to 91%, while the reduction in the removal for MB was much more significantly impacted, diminishing from 95 to 79% after the five cycles.
Topics & Concepts
Methylene blueCongo redRefining (metallurgy)WastewaterAdsorptionPulp and paper industryWaste managementEnvironmentally friendlyRed mudSugarChemistryMaterials scienceEnvironmental scienceOrganic chemistryCatalysisMetallurgyEngineeringBiologyEcologyPhotocatalysisDye analysis and toxicity