Open AccessTea fiber waste as an adsorbent to remove phenol from wastewater
Author(s) -
Akash Kumar Surana,
Nilesh Bagri,
C. R. Girish
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-524X
DOI - 10.14419/ijet.v7i3.10023
Subject(s) - adsorption , response surface methodology , phosphoric acid , wastewater , freundlich equation , phenol , materials science , process optimization , pulp and paper industry , fiber , particle size , volume (thermodynamics) , chemistry , chromatography , chemical engineering , composite material , environmental science , environmental engineering , organic chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , engineering
The current work investigates the phenol adsorption from wastewater using tea fibre waste as an adsorbent. The agricultural waste was treated with phosphoric acid and various properties like surface are, pore volume and average particle size of the adsorbent were determined. The optimization of the parameters like temperature, pH, dosage and concentration were done with response surface methodology (RSM). The quadratic model developed from the optimization was used to relate the variation of percent removal with respect to experimental parameters. The equilibrium data obeyed Freundlich model while kinetic data followed first order model. From the thermodynamic studies, the feasibility of the process was found. The adsorption capacity for the tea fibre was obtained as 12.59 mg/g.