Adsorption of Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solutions on Carbon Coated Monolith

  • Darmadi Darmadi Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Universiti of Putra Malaysia and Department of Chemical Engineering, faculty of Engineering, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh
  • Thomas SY Choong Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Universiti of Putra Malaysia
  • Chuah T.G Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Universiti of Putra Malaysia
  • Robiah Yunus Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Universiti of Putra Malaysia
  • Y.H Taufiq Yap Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Keywords: adsorption, carbon coated monilith, methylene blue

Abstract

Carbon coated monolith was used as adsorbent to remove methylene blue from aqueous solution. Adsorption rate and equilibrium parameters of methylene blue were investigated in a batch system. Equilibrium adsorption data were predicted by two isotherms, i.e. the Langmuir and the Freundlich isotherms. The best fit to the data was obtained with the Langmuir isotherm with maximum monolayer adsorption capacity of 191.307 mg/g. Kinetics of adsorption with respect to the initial concentration of dye was described by using both the pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order models. It was found that kinetic data fitted well with the pseudo-first-order model.

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Published
2008-12-31
How to Cite
Darmadi, D., Choong, T. S., T.G, C., Yunus, R., & Yap, Y. T. (2008). Adsorption of Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solutions on Carbon Coated Monolith. ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering, 8(1), 26-37. Retrieved from https://dev.journal.ugm.ac.id/v3/AJChE/article/view/7696
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Vol 8 No 1 (2008)
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