Equilibrium and kinetic study for the removal of malachite green using activated carbon prepared from Borassus flabellofer male flower

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 465-472

  Babu, P E Jagadeesh ^a   Kumar, Vimal ^b   Visvanathan, Renuka ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA   (India)

^b ST JOSEPH S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Borassus flabellofer male flower; Equilibrium; Kinetics; Malachite green

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION TEMPERATURES; BATCH ADSORPTION EXPERIMENTS; CONTACT TIME; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EQUILIBRIUM; FREUNDLICH; INITIAL DYE CONCENTRATION; INITIAL PH; INTRA-PARTICLE DIFFUSION; KINETIC STUDY; LANGMUIR ISOTHERM; MALACHITE GREEN; OPERATING VARIABLES; OPTIMAL VARIABLES; PSEUDO-FIRST-ORDER; PSEUDO-SECOND-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; RATE LIMITING FACTORS; SECOND-ORDER EQUATION; SORPTION KINETICS; STOCK SOLUTIONS;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; CARBONATE MINERALS; COAL COMBUSTION; DYES; KINETIC THEORY; OPTIMIZATION;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

EID: 77953953019     PISSN: 19322135     EISSN: 19322143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/apj.327     Document Type: Article

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