The removal of methylene blue from aqueous solutions by using microwave heating and pre-boiling treated onion skins as a new adsorbent

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1577-1590

  Saka, C ^a   Sahin O ^a   Celik M S ^a  

^a SIIRT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

adsorption; kinetic study; methylene blue; microwave heating; onion skins

Indexed keywords

ADSORBENT DOSAGE; ADSORBENT DOSE; ADSORPTION CAPACITIES; CONTACT TIME; DYE CONCENTRATION; DYE UPTAKE; EQUILIBRIUM DATA; EQUILIBRIUM ISOTHERMS; EQUILIBRIUM MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIRST-ORDER; FREUNDLICH; INITIAL DYE CONCENTRATION; KINETIC STUDY; LANGMUIR ISOTHERM; LANGMUIRS; METHYLENE BLUE; ONION SKIN; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SECOND ORDERS;

ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; MICROWAVE HEATING; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 84864046656     PISSN: 15567036     EISSN: 15567230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15567036.2010.525598     Document Type: Article

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