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Adsorption can be efficiently employed for the removal of various toxic dyes from water and wastewater. In this article, the authors reviewed variety of adsorbents used by various researchers for the removal of malachite green (MG) dye from an aqueous environment. The main motto of this review article was to assemble the scattered available information of adsorbents used for the removal of MG to enlighten their wide potential. In addition to this, various optimal experimental conditions (solution pH, equilibrium contact time, amount of adsorbent and temperature) as well as adsorption isotherms, kinetics and thermodynamics data of different adsorbents towards MG were also analyzed and tabulated. Finally, it was concluded that the agricultural solid wastes and biosorbents such as biopolymers and biomass adsorbents have demonstrated outstanding adsorption capabilities for removal of MG dye.
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Introduction
Till the late nineteenth century, all the colorants were extracted from shells, flowers, roots, insects and molluscs. But, with the historic discovery of first synthetic dye, Mauveine, most of the uses of natural dyes have been replaced with synthetic ones as they can be manufactured on a large scale (Gordon and Gregory 1987). At present, more than 1,00,000 synthetic dyes exist with an annual production of over 7 × 105 tonnes/year and are mostly associated with water pollution (Mittal et al. 2009; Gupta et al. 2011; Saravanan et al. 2016).
Malachite green (MG) is water soluble cationic dye that appears as green crystalline powder and belongs to triphenylmethane category (Raval et al. 2016b). The important physicochemical characteristics of MG were presented in Tables 1 and Table 2 narrated its applications and toxic effects. It was revealed from the Table 2 that the extensive usage of MG dye has caused several health hazards and hence, proper treatment of effluent containing MG dye is extremely necessary.
Many treatment technologies have been applied to decolorize MG from aqueous medium, such as biodegradation and decolorization (An et al. 2002; Levin et al. 2004; Ren et al. 2006; Eichlerová et al. 2006; Daneshvar et al. 2007a, b; Ayed et al. 2008; Ali et al. 2009; Wu et al. 2009; Cheriaa and Bakhrouf 2009; Ayed et al. 2010; Du et al. 2011; Khataee et al. 2011a, b; Shedbalkar and Jadhav 2011; Hu et al. 2011; Abd-El-Kareem and Taha 2012); photocatalytic degradation (Hasnat et al. 2003; Kominami et al. 2003; Lv et al. 2005; Yang et al. 2005; Chen et al. 2007; Sayılkan et al. 2007a, b, 2008; Tayade et al. 2007; Wang et al. 2008a; Ju et al. 2008; Asiltürk et al. 2009; Prado and Costa 2009; Bansal et al. 2009; Kaneva et al. 2010; Liu et al. 2010; Bojinova and Dushkin 2011; Chen et al. 2011; Tolia et al. 2012; Saha et al. 2012; Aliyan et al. 2013); photooxidative degradation (Modirshahla and Behnajady 2006); Solar degradation (Pirsaheb et al. 2015); coagulation–flocculation (Oladoja and Aliu 2009; Man et al. 2012); ozonation (Zhou et al. 2013); fenton reagent (Chen et al. 2002; Karimi et al. 2012; Bai et al. 2013; Nidheesh et al. 2013); Solvent extraction (Pandit and Basu 2004); sonochemical and sonophotocatalytic degradation (Berberidou et al. 2007; Bejarano-Pérez and Suárez-Herrera 2008; Moumeni and Hamdaoui 2012). However, all these techniques have certain limitations in terms of design, dye separation efficiency, cost and effectiveness. Advantages and disadvantages of various techniques used for the removal of MG dye have been summarized in Table 3 (Dawood and Sen 2014; Yang et al. 2014). More than 250 research articles have been published related to the adsorption of MG which confirmed that amongst all the available treatment techniques, adsorption has more frequently used one.
In addition, though there was a number of review articles such as Microbial decolorization of textile-dye containing effluents: a review by Banat et al. (1996); Fungal decolorization of dye wastewaters: a review by Fu and Viraraghavan (2001); Remediation of dyes in textile effluent: a critical review on current treatment technologies with a proposed alternative Robinson et al. (2001); The removal of color from textile wastewater using whole bacterial cells: a review by Pearce et al. (2003); Removal of synthetic dyes from wastewaters: a review by Forgacs et al. (2004); Decolourization of industrial effluents—available methods and emerging technologies—a review by Anjaneyulu et al. (2005); Adsorption–desorption characteristics of phenol and reactive dyes from aqueous solution on mesoporous activated carbon prepared from waste tires by Tanthapanichakoon et al. (2005); Non-conventional low-cost adsorbents for dye removal: a review by Crini (2006); Methods of dye removal from dye house effluent—an overview by Mondal (2008); Agricultural based activated carbons for the removal of dyes from aqueous solutions: a review by Demirbas (2009); Application of low-cost adsorbents for dye removal—a review by Gupta and Suhas (2009); Biodegradation of synthetic dyes—a review by Ali (2010); Decolorization of dye wastewaters by biosorbents: A review by Srinivasan and Viraraghavan (2010); Cationic and anionic dye adsorption by agricultural solid wastes: a comprehensive review by Salleh et al. (2011); A review on applicability of naturally available adsorbents for the removal of hazardous dyes from aqueous waste by Sharma et al. (2011); Adsorption of dyes and heavy metal ions by chitosan composites: a review by Wan Ngah et al. (2011); Microbial decolouration of azo dyes: A review by Solís et al. (2012); Adsorption of dyes using different types of sand: a review by Bello et al. (2013); Adsorptive removal of dyes from aqueous solution onto carbon nanotubes: a review by Gupta et al. (2013); Agricultural peels for dye adsorption: a review of recent literature by Anastopoulos and Kyzas (2014); Magnetic composite an environmental super adsorbent for dye sequestration—a review by Sivashankar et al. (2014); Dye and its removal from aqueous solution by adsorption: a review by Yagub et al. (2014), none of them has given comprehensive knowledge on the adsorptive removal of MG from aqueous media.
Therefore, in this review article we tried to congregate the available information on various adsorbents used for the removal of MG, a cationic dye, from water and wastewater. The main objective of this review article was to compile an extensive list of adsorbents which will help the future generation to furnish comprehensive up-to-date research summary on adsorbents used for removal of MG dye. Also the reported optimal experimental conditions (solution pH, contact time and amount of adsorbent) as well as adsorption isotherms, kinetics and thermodynamics data of different adsorbents towards MG were also mentioned. The authors embolden the readers to refer to the original research articles for information regarding the experimental conditions.
Dyes and their classification
Dyes (a natural or synthetic substance) are mainly chemical compounds that can affix themselves on the surface of fabrics to impart color (Yagub et al. 2014). It refers as a substance, usually organic, which is designed to be absorbed or adsorbed by, made to react with, or deposited within a substrate to impart color to that substrate with some degree of permanence (Burkinshaw 2016). Dyes may be classified in several ways (Adegoke and Bello 2015). Figure 1 summarizes the complete classification of dyes.
Based on the source of materials: Dyes can be classified mainly into two types based on their origin
Natural dyes
Natural dyes can be derived from the three primary sources—plants, animals and minerals. They are mostly negatively charged. Positively charged natural dyes can also exist, but they are not very common. Irrespective of the source of origin, natural dyes can be categorized as:
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Substantive dyes: Those dyes which become chemically fixed to the fiber without the aid of any other chemicals or additives are referred to as substantive dyes or direct dyes.
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Adjective dyes: Those natural dyes which require an added substance or mordant to make the dyes colorfast are known as adjective dyes or mordant dyes. Most of the natural dyes belong to this category (Cardon 2007).
Synthetic dyes
Dyes derived from organic or inorganic compounds are known as synthetic dyes. Because of their easy use, cost effectiveness and wide range of colors these dyes became popular.
Based on their method of application to the substrate
Acid dyes
Acid dyes are highly water soluble anionic dyes which contain one or more sulfonic groups/substituents and other acidic groups. They have better light fastness compare to basic dyes. The existence of sulfonic acid groups upsurge their solubility in water and give the dye molecules a negative charge. Acid dyes can be further divided into two sub-groups:
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Acid-leveling dyes: These dyes are smaller or medium sized, and show a moderate affinity for wool fibers. Hence, due to average affinity these dyes are not very resistant to washing.
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Acid-milling dyes: These dyes are larger than acid-leveling dyes, and show a much stronger inter-molecular attractions for wool fibers. Due to this strong affinity these dyes are very resistant to washing.
Basic dyes
These water soluble dyes possess cationic functional groups such as –NR3+ or =NR2+. They are generally amino and substituted amino compounds soluble in acid. They become attached to the fibers by formation of ionic bonds with fiber’s anionic groups.
Direct dyes
Although these dyes are water soluble anionic dyes, they cannot be classified as acid dyes because the acid groups are not the means of attachment to the fiber. Since, these dyes do not require any kind of fixing, they are called direct dyes.
Mordant dyes
A latin word mordant means ‘to bite’. It acts as ‘fixing agent’ to improve the color fastness of some acid dyes, because they have the ability to form insoluble colored complexes with metal ions. They are usually metal salts. Besides, alum there is a large range of other metallic salt mordants available. Aluminum, chromium and iron salts are frequently used for synthetic mordant dyes.
Reactive dyes
Fiber reactive dyes will form a covalent bond while they react with the cellulosic fiber. As a result they are very difficult to remove, once attached with the fiber. Initially, these dyes were designed for cellulose fibers but now some fiber-reactive dyes for protein and polyamide fibers are also commercially available.
Disperse dyes
These dyes have substantially low solubility in water. Their structure is small, planner and non-ionic with attached polar functional groups, such as –NO2 and –CN. They are mainly used for the dyeing of polyesters because they can interact with the polyester chains by forming dispersed particles.
Solvent dyes
These dyes are insoluble in water but soluble in alcohols, chlorinated hydrocarbons and liquid ammonia. They are mainly used for coloring plastics, synthetic fibers, gasoline, oils and waxes.
Sulfur dyes
Sulfur dyes are applied to cotton from an alkaline reducing bath with sodium sulfide as the reducing agent. These dyes are water insoluble but they are soluble in their reduced form and exhibit affinity for cellulose. They are low cost and have good fastness to light, washings and acids. The actual structures of sulfur dyes are largely unknown although it is considered that they possess sulfur-containing heterocyclic rings.
Based on their chemical structure: (Gordon and Gregory 1987; Waring and Hallas 1990)
Azo dyes
Approximately half of all dyes are azo dyes, making them the largest group of synthetic colorants used in textile industries. This type of dyes contain minimum one azo group but can also contain two or three, but very rarely, four azo groups. Azo dyes are complex aromatic compounds with significant structural diversity and are of great environmental concern because the reductive cleavage of azo linkages is responsible for the formation of amines, which are classified as toxic and carcinogenic (Raval et al. 2016a).
Anthraquinone dyes
Anthraquinone dyes are the second most important class after azo dyes. They are also one of the oldest types of dyes since they have been found in the covering of mummies dating back over 4000 years. In contrast to the azo dyes, which have no natural counterparts, all the natural red dyes were anthraquinones. The lower tinctorial strength and reduced flexibility increase the production cost of anthraquinone dyes and hence, they are not as widely used as azo dyes.
Benzodifuranone dyes
Benzodifuranone (BDF) dyes are one such type which attacking anthraquinone dyes. The BDF chromogen is one of the very few novel chromogens to have been accidently discovered this century
Polymethine and related dyes
Dyes containing a conjugated chain of carbon atoms terminated by an ammonium group and, in addition, a nitrogen, sulfur, or oxygen atom, or an equivalent unsaturated group is termed as polymethine dyes. This type of dyes may be neutral, cationic or anionic. The best known cationic polymethine dyes are the cyanine dyes. Cyanine dyes cannot be used as textile dyes because they have poor light fastness. They are used in photography.
Polycyclic aromatic carbonyl dyes
Polycyclic aromatic carbonyl dyes have one or more carbonyl groups. These carbonyl groups are linked by a quinonoid system. These dyes are relatively very large molecules which are made up from smaller units of anthraquinones. These dyes are often termed as anthraquinonoid vat dyes because they are applied to the substrate by a vatting process.
Indigoid dyes
Indigoid dyes also contain carbonyl groups, similar to the anthraquinone, benzodifuranone and polycyclic aromatic carbonyl dyes. They are vat dyes and represent one of the oldest known classes of dyes.
Phthalocyanines
Phthalocyanines are one of the novel chromophores which have been discovered since the nineteenth century. They are structurally similar to the natural porphyrin pigments haemin and chlorophyll. These natural pigments have poor stability, but phthalocyanines have exceptional stability and tinctorially stronger. All the phthalocyanine compounds are blue to green in color because substituents in their fused benzene rings exert only a minor sway on the color of phthalocyanines. They are widely used in printing inks and paints.
Di- and tri-aryl carbonium and related dyes
Di- and triarylcarbonium dyes and their heterocyclic derivatives comprise the oldest class of synthetic dyes—the majority of which were discovered in the 19th and early 20th century. Diphenylmethane and Triphenylmethane dyes are the most important aryl carbonium dyes. Structurally and property wise they are similar to the cyanine dyes i.e. exceptional brightness, high tinctorial strength and low light fastness.
Nitro and nitroso dyes
Nitro and nitroso dyes are minor commercial importance and constitute only a fraction of the total dyes market. Nitro dyes have simple chemical structures. They are small aromatic molecules which contain minimum one nitro group and one or more amino or hydroxy groups. Initially, the nitro dyes were acid dyes which were used for dyeing the natural animal fibers i.e. wool and silk. Picric acid was the first synthetic nitro dye which imparted a greenish-yellow color to silk but could not be used for longer period of time because of its toxicity and poor fastness properties.
Nitroso dyes are prepared by nitrosation of the appropriate phenol or naphthol. They are generally metal complex derivatives of o-nitrosophenols or naphthols. Nitroso dyes are polygenetic because they form differently colored complexes with different metals. They have good light fastness.
Based upon the electronic origins of color
Griffith (1976, 1981) has classified dyes based on the electronic mechanism by which color is generated. According to this, purely on theoretical basis, dyes can be arranged into four classes.
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Donor–acceptor chromogens
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Polyene chromogens
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n → п2 chromogens
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Cyanine type chromogens
Literature on various adsorbents used for the removal of MG
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Activated carbon adsorbents
Activated carbons (AC) are known as very efficacious adsorbents due to their large surface area, a micro-porous structure and a high degree of surface reactivity. However, due to their high production costs, these materials tend to be more expensive than other adsorbents. Four classes of AC include: powder (PAC), granular (GAC), fibrous (ACF) and cloth (ACC). Also two more frequently used ACs are: (1) commercial activated carbons and (2) activated carbons prepared from agricultural waste materials (Raval et al. 2016c).
Commercial activated carbons
A number of commercially available activated carbons such as powdered activated carbon (Kumar 2006); coal-based activated carbon (Aitcheson et al. 2000); commercially available powdered activated carbon (CPAC) (Malik et al. 2007); activated carbon prepared from lignite (Önal et al. 2007); activated Charcoal (Iqbal and Ashiq 2007); activated carbon prepared from Tuncbileklignite (Önal et al. 2006); oxyhumolite (Young brown coal) (Janos et al. 2005); Ordered mesoporous carbons (OMCs) (Tian et al. 2011); etc. have been extensively studied for the adsorption of MG.
Mesoporous carbon was synthesized by Anbia and Ghaffari (2012) for the removal of a cationic dye malachite green (MG) from aqueous solution. They carried out study under various experimental conditions and concluded that the equilibrium was attained within 30 min of contact with adsorbent and more than 99% removal of MG was reached at the optimum pH value of 8.5.
Aitcheson et al. (2000) used coal-based activated carbon 207EA (Sutcliffe Speakman) for the removal of aquaculture therapeutants (Malachite Green, formalin, Chloramine-T and Oxytetracycline) which were widely used in aquaculture to control fish parasites and disease. The adsorption process was well fitted to the Freundlich isotherm and confirmed that adsorption was heterogeneous in nature.
Adsorption of MG was studied by Mall et al. (2005) using commercial grade (ACC) and laboratory grade (ACL) activated carbons. Authors conducted batch adsorption studies to evaluate the effect of various parameters such as pH, adsorbent dose, contact time and initial MG concentration on the removal of MG and concluded that the effective pH was 7.0 for adsorption of MG. Equilibrium reached in about 4 h contact time and optimum ACC and ACL dosages were 20 and 4.0 g/L, respectively.
To overcome deficiencies of CACs the use of activated carbon adsorbents derived from various agricultural waste and industrial solid waste materials have received increasing consideration in the purification of wastewater over the last several years because they are generated in excess, inexpensive, locally available and their use will further solve the problem of their disposal (Pehlivan and Arslan 2007).
Activated carbons prepared from agricultural and industrial solid wastes
As biomass and other waste materials have little or no economic value and often present a disposal problem, they offer an inexpensive and additional renewable source of activated carbon. Thus, conversion of these low cost by products into activated carbon would provide an inexpensive substitute to the existing CACs, add monetary value and help in dropping the expenditure of waste disposal (Raval et al. 2016c).
Polygonum orientale Linn is an annual plant of the genus Polygonum in the family Polygonaceae, which is native to eastern Asia and widely distributed in China. This plant has a developed caudex system and generally produces large and continuous caudex masses. Therefore, this plant offers a good basis for the development of adsorbent materials. Looking upon this property of plant (Wang et al. 2010) prepared P. orientale Linn activated carbon (PLAC) from waste P. orientale Linn by chemical activation with H3PO4 and used as an adsorbent to remove malachite green (MG) and rhodamine B (RB) from aqueous solution.
Durian (Durio zibethinus Murray) is the most popular seasonal fruit in Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, and belongs to the family Bombacaceae. A significant percentage of the planted durian fruit crop is wasted each year. Only one third of durian fruit is edible, whereas the seeds (20–25%) and the shells are usually discarded. The wasted durian seed represents a significant potential for the development of value-added products. Thus, Ahmad et al. (2014) studied the removal of Malachite green dye using durian seed-based activated carbon.
Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum L.) is a popular tropical fruit which belongs to Sapindaceae family. However, due to the high consumption of rambutan’s edible part, massive amount of the peel is disposed, causing a severe problem in the community as they gradually ferment and release off odors. Therefore, Ahmad and Alrozi (2011) converted rambutan peel into activated carbon by physiochemical activation for its potential to remove MG dye from wastewater.
Akar et al. (2013) produced active carbon from spent tea leaves (STAC) by activation with 4% NaOH solution for the removal of malachite green dye because tea is basically dried and processed leaves of plant called Camellia sinensis. It is consumed by the most of people in the world and is the second most popular beverage in the world. It is estimated that between 18 and 20 billion cups of tea are drunk daily in world and disposal of spent leaves become a major problem.
Banana (Musa paradisiaca) is native to Southeast Asia, most of the bananas produced are consumed locally and ∼10% are exported. Massive amounts of stalk (as waste products) are disposed, resulting in a serious environmental problem through the emission of foul odors when it is left to decompose. Hence, Bello et al. (2012) attempted to use banana stalk, an abundantly available lignocellulosic agricultural waste, as a cheap and renewable precursor for activated carbon preparation for MG dye removal and helped in placing value on this agricultural waste and provide a potentially cheap alternative to existing commercial activated carbons.
In addition to above described materials, a wide variety of other agricultural and industrial waste materials have also been used for the preparation of activated carbon and applied for the adsorptive removal of MG dye from aqueous solution. It includes Tamarind fruit shells carbon (Vasu 2008); Juglans regia shells carbon (Nethaji et al. 2012); Annona squmosa seed (Santhi et al. 2010a); Groundnut shell carbon (Malik et al. 2007); Pine sawdust (Akmil-Başar et al. 2005); Tea leaves (Singh and Rastogi 2004); Bamboo (Hameed and El-Khaiary 2008a); Jute fiber (Porkodi and Vasanth Kumar 2007) and waste printed circuit boards (Kan et al. 2015), etc.
In addition, Table 4 presented various commercially available and agricultural waste based activated carbon adsorbents used for the removal of MG and their optimum conditions.
Non-conventional low-cost adsorbents
Activated carbon adsorption has been cited by the US Environmental Protection Agency as one of the best available control technologies. However, although activated carbon is a preferred sorbent, its widespread use is restricted due to high cost. To decrease the cost of treatment, attempts have been made to find inexpensive alternative adsorbents. Recently, numerous approaches have been studied for the development of cheaper and effective adsorbents. Thus, there is a need to search for new and economical adsorbent that could remove metal. In this context, agricultural by-products and industrial waste can be seen as having a great potential to be developed as a low cost sorbent. A low-cost adsorbent is defined as the one which is plentiful in nature, or is a by-product or waste from industry and requires little or no processing (Raval et al. 2016c). Literature survey reveals that multifarious materials have been utilized as adsorbents under this category.
Waste materials from agriculture and industry
Agricultural solid wastes
Agricultural solid wastes are relatively cheap and are available in huge quantities. They can be used as an adsorbent due to their physic-chemical properties. The utilization of these wastes can play a significant role in national economy (Crini 2006).
Orange peel is discarded in the orange-juice and soft-drink industries all over the world. It has been used as an adsorbent for the removal of MG from wastewater by Kumar and Porkodi (2007). The results revealed that the adsorption process followed both Langmuir and Redlich–Peterson isotherms, the adsorption capacity was 483.63 mg/g.
A study of Rahman et al. (2005) reported the removal of MG from aqueous solutions onto Phosphoric acid (H3PO4) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) treated rice husks.
Rice straw is a lignocellulosic agricultural stalk containing cellulose (37.4%), hemi-cellulose (44.9%), lignin (4.9%) and silica ash (13.1%). Gong et al. (2006) compared MG adsorption efficiency of native and thermos chemically modified rice straw and found their adsorption efficiency 94.34 and 256.41 mg/g, respectively.
Chieng et al. (2015) investigated the use of breadnut (Artocarpus camansi) as a low-cost adsorbent for the removal of MG toxic dye. In Brunei Darussalam, breadnut was locally known as ‘Kemangsi’, whose seeds were consumed either cooked or roasted. The skin and core of Artocorpus fruits, the major parts of the fruits, were inedible and have no economical value, and discarded as waste. Authors concluded that the adsorption characteristics of breadnut skin towards MG can be significantly enhanced by modification through treatment with dilute NaOH solution.
Other solid wastes from cheap and readily available resources have also been successfully employed for the removal of MG from aqueous solution and were given in Table 5.
Industrial by-products/industrial solid wastes
Industrial by products, such as metal hydroxide sludge, fly ash, red mud and bio-solids, can be used as low-cost adsorbents for MG removal. Table 6 represented the maximum adsorption capacities together with the isotherm, kinetics and thermodynamic results of various industrial solid wastes adsorbents for MG.
Fly ash: Witek-Krowiak et al. (2012) investigated the use of fly ash for the adsorption MG from solution with different contact times, initial dye concentrations, pHs and temperatures. The adsorption equilibrium has been described in terms of Langmuir model. The enthalpy values obtained in the experiment were not high, which suggested that physical sorption dominates in the process of cationic dyes bonding on microspheres of fly ash.
Bagasse fly ash (BFA) is a waste collected from the particulate separation equipment attached to the flue gas line of the sugarcane bagasse-fired boilers and has been used as an effective adsorbent for the removal of dyes. This is available in plenty, and almost free of cost from the sugar mills. In addition, bagasse fly ash generated in the sugar industry does not contain large amounts of toxic metals and hence, Mall et al. (2005) used bagasse fly ash (BFA) as adsorbent for the removal of MG from aqueous solutions. Maximum adsorption capacity for MG was reported as 170.33 mg/g (at pH 7.0 and adsorbent dosage of 1.0 g/L) and within 240 min of contact time.
Waste red mud: Zhang et al. (2014b) used the acid activated (Acid treatment neutralize the alkalinity of red mud, which could also be recognized as a method for activating the material) sintering process red mud (ASRM) for the adsorption of MG. The optimum process variables were found to be pH > 3.2, 180 min of contact time and 0.25 g/250 mL of adsorbent dosage. The adsorption process followed the Langmuir isotherm with 336.40 mg/g of adsorption capacity.
Activated slag: Steel plants produce granular blast furnace slag as a byproduct, and this material also causes a disposal problem. Hence, Gupta et al. (1997) utilized this waste product for the adsorption of MG from aqueous medium both in batch and column modes. Further, they concluded that the column capacity was found to be higher than the batch capacity. The removal takes place through a film diffusion mechanism at lower concentrations and by particle diffusion at higher concentrations.
Natural materials
Clays
Clay is mineral comprised of alumina and silica that usually includes bound water. Clays have a sheet-like structure and are composed of tetrahedrally arranged silicates and octahedrally arranged aluminates. Due to their low-cost, abundance in nature, high sorption capacity, chemical and mechanical stability, layered structure and high cation-exchange capacity (CEC), clay minerals are frequently used as an adsorbent (Krauskopf 1956; da Fonseca et al. 2006).The clays always contain exchangeable ions on their surface and play vital role in the environment by acting as a natural scavengers of contaminants by taking up cations and/or anions through either ion exchange or adsorption (Babel and Kurniawan 2003).
A low-cost inorganic powder (Persian Kaolin) was used as adsorbent for the sequestration of cationic dye from aqueous solution by Tehrani-Bagha et al. (2011). The sorption of the dye malachite green on kaolin confirmed to linear form of Langmuir adsorption equation. The maximum adsorption capacity was 52.91 mg/g. In addition, kinetic and thermodynamic parameters, such as enthalpy (∆H) and free energy (∆G) were calculated. The negative values of ΔG and positive values of ΔH indicated that the dye adsorption process was spontaneous and endothermic in nature
The efficacy of montmorillonite clay had been investigated by Tahir et al. (2010) for the adsorptive removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solution. Authors concluded that the MG dye was homogenously adsorbed on the surface of montmorillonite clay adsorbent.
Bulut et al. (2008) investigated the sorption of MG from aqueous solution onto bentonite as a function of contact time, pH and initial dye concentration. The adsorption equilibriums have been described in terms of Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin and Dubinin–Radushkevich models. Authors reported that the adsorption process obeyed the Langmuir isotherm and pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The results of the thermodynamic study indicated that the sorption process was endothermic and spontaneous.
Tahir and Rauf (2006) utilized the natural bentonite clay for the adsorption of MG dye from aqueous solution. The authors finally concluded that the values of sorption free energy (E a) of 1.00–1.12 kJ/mol indicated physical adsorption of dye on clay mineral.
Siliceous materials
Siliceous rocks are sedimentary rocks that have silica (SiO2) as the principal constituent. The most common siliceous rock is chert other types include diatomite. They commonly form silica-secreting organisms, such as radiolarians, diatoms, or some types of sponges. The natural siliceous materials used for MG adsorption were perlite, silica, glass fibers and alunite because of their high abundance, easy availability and low cost.
Govindasamy et al. (2009) studied the removal of MG from aqueous solution by perlite. Authors reported 40 min of contact time, 0.1 g/50 mL of adsorbent dosage and 8.0–9.0 pH value were optimum conditions for the removal of dye. It was suggested that the adsorption of MG onto perlite was spontaneous, chemical and exothermic in nature and followed Freundlich isotherm as well as pseudo-first-order kinetic rate model.
Silica gel is a hydrophilic porous adsorbent. Aromatic compounds are found to involve the pi-cloud in hydrogen bonding with silanol (SiOH) group during adsorption. Cationic and nonionic surfactants adsorb on silica surface involving hydrogen bonding (Parida et al. 2006).
Kannan et al. (2008) utilized tetrahedral silica for the adsorption of MG. The adsorbent was characterized by Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) to confirm the tetrahedral framework of silica. The thermodynamic studies proved that the adsorption was endothermic and chemisorptions (ΔH 0 > 40 kJ/mol) on silica. Recovery of dye on silica was studied from 30 to 90 °C and observed that only 3.5% was recovered from silica. The less recovery on silica proved the strong adsorption of dye on silica.
Talc is the most common silicate material, with an idealized chemical formula of Mg3Si4O10(OH)2. Its ability to remove aqueous MG from solution had been studied by Lee et al. (2013).
Zeolites
Zeolites are highly porous crystalline aluminosilicates with tetrahedrally connected three dimensional frameworks and extra-framework charge balancing cations. Zeolite structures are commonly described in terms of the size, geometry and connectivity of the pore space. The use of natural zeolite as an adsorbent has gained interest among researchers; mainly because of its sorption properties provide a combination of ion exchange and molecular sieve properties which can also be easily modified (Goursot et al. 1997; Sánchez and Pariente 2011).
Zeolites have been used as chemical sieves, as water softeners, as removers of ammonia from urban, agricultural and industrial waste waters and of toxic gases from gaseous emissions, as filters for odor control, as chemical fertilizer, herbicide and pesticide carriers and in animal nutrition (Sand and Mumpton 1978; Breck 1984; Karge and Weitkamp 1989).
Han et al. (2010) investigated the use of natural zeolite, obtained from Xinyang city in China, for the removal of MG from aqueous solution. The rate constants of sorption for different kinetic models were calculated. Good correlation coefficients were obtained for the pseudo-second order kinetic model. In addition, authors were treated spent zeolite by microwave irradiation and it was found that yield of regeneration was 85.8% in the case of microwave irradiated time 10 min at 160 W.
Table 7 represented the maximum adsorption capacities together with the isotherm, kinetics and thermodynamic results of various natural materials used for the removal of MG
Biosorbents
Biosorption is defined as the accumulation and concentration of pollutants from aqueous solutions by the use of biological materials. Biological materials, such as yeast, fungi or bacterial biomass and biopolymers are used as adsorbents for the removal of MG from aqueous media (Raval et al. 2016d; Gupta et al. 2015).
Biomass
Biomass is biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms, which can be applied to both animal and vegetable derived material. The major advantages of biosorption over conventional treatment methods include, low cost; high efficiency; minimization of chemical or biological sludge; no additional nutrient requirement and possibility of regeneration of biosorbent (Volesky 1990).
Decolorization/bioadsorption of MG dye from wastewater by (dead/living) biomass of submerged aquatic plant (Rajesh Kannan et al. 2010); white-rot fungi (Kuhar and Papinutti 2013); fresh water algae (Kumar et al. 2005); brown marine algae (Kannan et al. 2009) and immobilized baker’s yeast cells (Godbole and Sawant 2006) were studied by many researchers (shown in Table 8)
Wang (2009) used alligator weed (a freshwater macrophyte) as biosorbent for the removal of basic dye malachite green from aqueous solution mainly because alligator weed, originated from South America, occupies agricultural areas and blocks drainage and irrigation channels causing problems on agricultural land. In addition, it causes water pollution from plant decomposition and an increase in mosquito breeding areas. Finally, author concluded that the alligator weed could serve as low-cost adsorbents for removing MG from aqueous medium.
Parthenium (Parthenium hysterophorus L.), also known as white top or carrot weed, an annual herbaceous weed was pretreated with H3PO4 and H2SO4 by Lata et al. (2008) and employed for the adsorption of MG dye.
Biopolymers
Biopolymers are high molecular weight compounds synthesized by living organisms. The performance of chitin hydrogel as an adsorbent to remove MG has been demonstrated by Tang et al. (2012). They found that the maximum adsorption capacity of hydrogel for MG was 26.88 mg/g. Authors concluded from the calculated activation energy (37.18 kJ/mol) and from the results of SEM and FTIR that the adsorption of malachite green on the hydrogel was physical process.
Bekçi et al. (2008) synthesized chitosan beads and examined its adsorption capacity towards MG. In contrast to the chitin hydrogels the authors concluded from the calculated activation energy value (85.6 kJ/mol) that the adsorption of MG onto chitosan beads was chemical in nature.
Although chitin and chitosan are abundantly available biopolymers and are biocompatible and biodegradable material, they have less chemical versatility due to their strong crystal structure, and hence their chemical structures have been modified to overcome this undesirable characteristic. In an effort to increase the chemical versatility and adsorption efficiency, chitin and chitosan biopolymers have been modified or crosslinked by various surfactants and crosslinking agents.
Huang et al. (2012) explored the use of Chitin grafted poly (acrylic acid) (chi-g-PAA) for the removal of MG from wastewater and concluded that the carboxylic groups that are grafted to the surface of chitin can be hydrolyzed to a sodium salt using dilute NaOH(aq) and can be readily utilized to adsorb malachite green from aqueous solution. The monolayer adsorption capacity obtained was 285.70 mg/g which was 10 times higher than the chitin hydrogels (26.88 mg/g).
Wan Ngah et al. (2010) studied the removal of MG from aqueous solutions through adsorption on to chitosan coated bentonite beads. The characterization of adsorbents was performed by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Authors mentioned that the monolayer adsorption capacity obtained was 435.00 mg/g which was five times greater than the chitosan beads (93.55 mg/g).
Peat
Peat is a porous and complex natural material, widely available and studied as an alternative adsorbent for different pollutants as well as dyes (Raval et al. 2016c).
Coco-peat was used by Vijayaraghavan et al. (2015) as an adsorbent to study the adsorption of malachite green and crystal violet from wastewater. It was found that a contact time of 60 min was sufficient for the adsorption to reach equilibrium. The optimum pH was found to be 7.0. The data for the adsorption of MG was described well by both the Sips adsorption isotherm model. The adsorption process was found to be endothermic.
Nanomaterials
Typical nanomaterials include nanotubes, nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanorods, fullerenes, and nanowires (Schmidt et al. 2002; Gupta and Saleh 2013; Gupta and Nayak 2012; Saravanan et al. 2013, 2014).
Carbon nanotubes were discovered accidentally by Iijima (1991), while studying the surfaces of graphite electrodes used in an electric arc discharge. CNTs are divided into two types based on the arrangement of their graphene cylinders: (1) single-walled CNTs (SWCNTs) and (2) multi-walled CNTs (MWCNTs) (Khani et al. 2010; Saleh and Gupta 2011).
MWNTs are collections of several concentric graphene cylinders and are larger structures compared to SWNTs which are individual cylinders of 1–2 nm diameter. The former can be considered as a mesoscale graphite system, whereas the latter is truly a single large molecule (Odom et al. 1998). The mechanisms by which the dye molecules are sorbed onto CNTs are very complicated and appear attributable to electrostatic attraction, sorption, precipitation and chemical interaction between the reactive groups of dye molecules and the surface functional groups of CNTs.
Recently, Rajabi et al. (2016) functionalized MWCNTs with the carboxylate group and used as an adsorbent for the rapid and fast removal of MG dye from the aqueous solutions. The optimized contact time and pH were 10 min and 9, respectively. The effect of temperature revealed that the adsorption capacity of MG dye increased with increasing contact time, temperature and pH. The adsorption equilibrium and kinetic data was well fitted and found to be in good agreement with the Langmuir isotherm model and pseudo second order kinetic model, respectively.
Shirmardi et al. (2013) prepared functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (f-MWCNTs) by acid treatment and used for the adsorption of MG dye from aqueous solution in batch mode. The results indicated that by increasing contact time, pH and adsorbent dosage, the removal percentage increased, but by increasing the initial MG concentration, the removal percentage decreased. Based on correlation coefficient (R 2), the experimental data follows the Langmuir isotherm with maximum adsorption capacity of 142.85 mg/g.
Halloysite, a mineral of the kaolin group [forms hollow tubular crystals (halloysite nanotubes—HNTs)], can be used as MG dye adsorbent by Kiani et al. (2011) and found that the equilibrium adsorption was reached within 30 min. The adsorption of MG by HNTs obeyed pseudo-second-order kinetics with activation energy 18.28 kJ/mol, suggested that the process was physisorption. The best-fit adsorption isotherm was achieved with the Langmuir model, indicating that homogeneous adsorption occurred. The negative values of ΔG° and positive value of ΔH° showed that the adsorption was a spontaneous and endothermic.
The particles of at least one dimension smaller than 1 µm, and potentially as small as atomic and molecular length scales (0.2 nm) are called nanoparticles. Nanoparticles can have amorphous or crystalline form (Buzea et al. 2007). Due to some of the unique characteristics such as small size, catalytic potential, large surface area, ease of separation, and large number of active sites for interaction with different contaminants the nanoparticles have established themselves as excellent adsorbents (Raval et al. 2016d).
Composites and nano-composites
The nano-scale inclusions that are imbedded within matrix of a material are referred as composites (Chen et al. 2013).
Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) is a water-soluble material containing many reactive hydroxyl groups. It has been extensively applied in biomedical and pharmaceutical fields due to its low cost, non-toxicity, biocompatibility, good mechanical strength and chemical stability. However, the PVA foam illustrated low adsorption for organic and inorganic pollutants. Chitosan (CS) is one of the most abundant biopolymers in nature. It exhibits good adsorption capacity for organic dyes and heavy metals because it has a large number of hydroxyl and amine groups. However, the use of CS in the form of flake or powder cannot be separated easily. Therefore, Li et al. (2012) prepared a novel foam adsorbent based on PVA/CS composites by the interpenetrating polymer network (IPN), foaming process and freeze-thaw treatment and found that the composite material had higher adsorption efficiency (380.65 mg/g) compared with the single component.
Hussain et al. (2006) defined nanocomposites as materials consisting of at least two phases with one dispersed in another that is called matrix, and thus forms a three dimensional network.
Wang et al. (2015) prepared Magnetic β-cyclodextrin-graphene oxide nanocomposites (Fe3O4/β–CD/GO) as an adsorbent for MG dye because graphene oxide have abundant hydrophilic groups on its surface, and thus it has good adsorption capacity still its separation was difficult task from sample solution and hence, to simplify the retrieval procedure, magnetic adsorbent (Fe3O4) has been incorporated with GO. In addition, β-CD was also added onto composite (Magnetic-graphene oxide) to provide hydrophobic inner cavity and a hydrophilic exterior which can enhance the adsorption capacity of composite adsorbent for MG dye.
Table 9 presented the maximum adsorption capacities of various nanomaterials, composite and nanocomposite adsorbents used for MG.
Miscellaneous adsorbents
See Table 10.
Conclusions and future perspectives
Adsorption process being very easy, economical, effective and versatile had become the most favored methods for amputation of toxic and hazardous dyes from wastewater. This review article revealed about various adsorbents, such as activated carbons, low-cost materials, nanomaterials, composites and nanocomposites, used for the adsorption and removal of MG from water and wastewater. It was concluded that amongst all the other adsorbents, agricultural solid wastes and biosorbents, such as biopolymers and biomass, have been extensively used for the removal of MG and are acknowledged as effective and economic adsorbents for the removal of MG dye. Various experimental conditions (pH, temperature, contact time and amount of adsorbent) have been also mentioned for related adsorbents in the present article.
This review article also disclosed that the Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherm models were frequently applied to evaluate the adsorption capacity of various adsorbents towards MG. In kinetic study, it was observed that the pseudo-second-order rate model was been followed for the adsorption of MG and according to thermodynamic parameters the adsorption process was found to be spontaneous in nature.
Since, most of the reported studies had been performed using batch and small-scale column adsorption tests, further research is required for the development of more effective adsorbents, modeling of adsorption mechanism, regeneration of spent adsorbents and treatment of real industrial wastewater.
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Raval, N.P., Shah, P.U. & Shah, N.K. Malachite green “a cationic dye” and its removal from aqueous solution by adsorption. Appl Water Sci 7, 3407–3445 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13201-016-0512-2
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