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Competitive adsorption of acid blue 113 and Congo red dyes from binary system with Moroccan prickly pear cactus peel (MPPCP) as natural adsorbent: kinetic, isotherm, and thermodynamic studies

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Wastewater contaminated with organic pollutants must be carefully treated before being discharged into the environment in order to reduce its negative effects on public health. Currently, much attention has been paid to the removal of dyes from industrial wastewater. The aim of this study is to investigate the removal of Acid Blue 113 (AB113) and Congo Red (CR) dyes by using Moroccan Prickly Pear Cactus Peel (MPPCP) from the binary system in a batch reactor. All the parameters influencing the adsorption of the dye in the binary system were studied namely the effect of mixture composition, contact time (20–210 min), initial dye concentration (20–300 mg/L), temperature (25–40 °C), and pH of the dye solution (2–12). The results showed that the uptake of both AB113 and CR dyes highly depends on initial dye concentration, solution composition dyes, and temperature. The kinetic study was performed by applying two kinetic models, the pseudo-first-order and the pseudo-second-order. The pseudo-second-order model better describes the adsorption of the dyes onto MPPCP adsorbent. The analysis of the obtained results shows that the correlation coefficients of the Freundlich model are higher which shows that the adsorption of AB113 and CR dyes in the binary mixture takes a multilayer form. The thermodynamic study showed that the adsorption of dyes in a binary system is spontaneous, physical, and exothermic. The obtained results in this work show that MPPCP can be considered a good material for the removal of anionic AB113 and CR dyes in the binary mixture and therefore used this material on an industrial scale.

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R.A.: methodology, analysis, interpretation of results, data curation, writing original draft, writing review, editing, and visualization. A.A.: formal analysis, data curation, writing original draft, writing review, editing, and visualization. S.N.: formal analysis, data curation, writing original draft, writing review, editing, and visualization, L.B.: revision, editing and data processing. M.A.: revision, editing, and visualization. E.H.E.: revision, editing and validation. M.Z.: study conception and design. F.S.: study conception, design, revision, validation and visualization. M.C.: revision, editing, validation, visualization, supervision and project administration.

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Aziam, R., Aboussabek, A., Nouaa, S. et al. Competitive adsorption of acid blue 113 and Congo red dyes from binary system with Moroccan prickly pear cactus peel (MPPCP) as natural adsorbent: kinetic, isotherm, and thermodynamic studies. J IRAN CHEM SOC 21, 227–238 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13738-023-02920-9

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