Recycling the wasted bentonite clay as a new and low-cost adsorbent for the ‎removal of the methylene blue (MB) dye from the aqueous solution

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Environmental Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Babol Noshirvani University of Technology Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran

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This study aims to recycle thermal remediated bentonite clay waste (TRBCW) as a green, ‎new, low-cost adsorbent to remove the methylene blue (MB) dye in an aqueous solution. The ‎first system was the batch adsorption experiments having five condition parameters: contact ‎time, pH, temperature, initial concentration of MB, and dose of TRBCW adsorbent. From the ‎analysis of the batch adsorption data, it was apparent that the adsorbing of MB molecules on ‎the TRBCW adsorbent was endothermic, irreversible, promising, spontaneous, and favorable. ‎The Fruendlich model was more compatible than the Langmuir model for the experimental ‎batch adsorption data, and the maximum adsorption capacity was 34.77 mg/g. The second ‎system is the continuous (fixed-bed column) having three investigated condition parameters: ‎the influent MB concentration, flow rate, and (TRBCW weight) bed depth, the adsorption ‎capacity that results from the dominant parameters (1ml/min, 50 mg/L, and 22 cm) was 61.37 ‎mg/g, and the experimental continuous adsorption data were more suitable with Yoon-Nelson, ‎Thomas, and BDST models with R2 > 0.9.‎

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Advances in Environmental Technology

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Available Online from 17 February 2024

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  • Receive Date: 17 July 2023
  • Revise Date: 17 February 2024
  • Accept Date: 17 February 2024

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