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The use of freshwater fish scale of the species Leporinus elongatus as adsorbent for anionic dyes

An isothermal calorimetric study

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Fish scale of the species Leporinus elongatus was tested as an adsorbent for anionic Remazol dyes. Characterization has suggested that hydroxyl, phosphate, amides I, II, and III, and carbonate groups are the potential sites of adsorption. From solution calorimetry, values of thermal effects, Q int, and amount of dye that interacts, n int, were determined. The adsorption order observed was Yellow-dye/scale > Red-dye/scale > Blue-dye/scale. The Q int and n int data were successfully adjusted to the Langmuir isotherm model. The dyes removals by fish scale are exothermic processes (from −83 to −199 kJ mol−1) with negative entropies and are thermodynamically spontaneous. The thermodynamic results suggest that the interactions at scale/anionic dye interfaces occur mainly by surface reactions. It was finding that fish scale is a new and suitable sorbent material for recovery and biosorption/adsorption of anionic dyes from aqueous solutions.

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This work was supported by the Brazilian agencies CNPq and CAPES. The authors are thankful to Santista Textiles Industries (Sergipe-Brazil) for providing the gift samples of dyes, and to CNPq for fellowships to all authors.

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  1. Departamento de Química/CCET, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 49100-000, São Cristóvão, Sergipe, Brazil

    Eunice F. S. Vieira, Antonio R. Cestari, Cíntia dos S. Oliveira & Renata A. Chagas

  2. Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal do ABC, 09210-170, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil

    Wagner A. Carvalho

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Vieira, E.F.S., Cestari, A.R., Carvalho, W.A. et al. The use of freshwater fish scale of the species Leporinus elongatus as adsorbent for anionic dyes. J Therm Anal Calorim 109, 1407–1412 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-011-2011-x

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