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Removal of Tartrazine from Aqueous Solution by Adsorption on Activated Red Mud

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In this study, activated red mud was used to develop an effective adsorbent in order to remove a toxic azo dye (tartrazine E102) from aqueous solutions. To increase the adsorption capacity, the red mud was activated by acid-heat treatment using 20 wt.% HCl (RM-HCl). To establish the optimum operating parameters, the influence of pH, adsorbent dose, contact time, initial dye concentration, and stirring rate was investigated. The adsorption equilibrium was studied using Langmuir, Freundlich, Dubinin-Radushkevich, Temkin isotherm models, and the characteristic parameters for each adsorption isotherm were determined. The kinetics of the adsorption process was analyzed by means of pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order models. The maximum removal efficiency obtained under optimum conditions was 84.72%. These results were in accordance with the isotherm and kinetic data. The results suggested that tartrazine adsorption process follows the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and also that fits Langmuir isotherm model. The maximum monolayer adsorption capacity was 136.98 mg/g.

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The authors would like to thank Alum Tulcea, Romania, for the support granted to this research (for the red mud residue samples and XRD and XRF analyses).

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    Ionela-Gabriela Bacioiu, Ligia Stoica & Carolina Constantin

  2. National Research and Development Institute for Soil Science, Agrochemistry and Environment Protection, Bucharest, Romania

    Carolina Constantin & Ana-Maria Stanescu

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Bacioiu, IG., Stoica, L., Constantin, C. et al. Removal of Tartrazine from Aqueous Solution by Adsorption on Activated Red Mud. Water Air Soil Pollut 228, 298 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-017-3469-3

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