ADSORPTIVE REMOVAL OF ERIOCHROME BLACK T (EBT) DYE FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION USING CANE SUGAR BAGASSE AS BIOADSORBENT

By

Mohammed, Hussaini¹ and Gashua, Ibrahim Babale
Department of science laboratory technology Federal polytechnic, damaturu¹.
*Corresponding Author: bgashua@gmail.com
Phone: +2348164313012

ABSTRACT

Textile effluent contains huge quantities of toxic chemicals and high level of chemical oxygen demands, which gets directly discharged into natural water bodies, thus contaminating the water quality. These effluents required prior treatment before being discharged into natural aqueous systems. In the present study, a low cost, highly efficient, eco-friendly adsorbent cane sugar bagasse from an industrial waste raw material will be used for the removal of eriochrome black t from aqueous solution. Parameters that influence the adsorption process such as contact time, initial dye concentration, dosage adsorbent, temperature, ph, activation time and adsorption studies will be studied in batch experiments. The experimental data will be analyzed using adsorption isotherm models freundlich and langmuir. Kinetics study will be carried out to see between pseudo-first order model and pseudo-second order model which is more suitable. The thermodynamic parameters will also be calculated, so that a conclusion will be drawn to ascertain whether cane sugar bagasse is a good adsorbent for the removal of color from textile waste water or not.

Keyword: Erichrome Black T, Cane Sugar, Bagasse, Adsorbent, Isotherm.