Multicomponent Sorption of Pyridine and Its Derivatives from Aqueous Solution onto Rice Husk Ash and Granular Activated Carbon
Publication: Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management
Volume 13, Issue 4
Abstract
The present paper deals with the simultaneous removal of Pyridine (Py), -picoline , and -picoline from aqueous solutions by sorption onto rice husk ash (RHA) and granular activated carbon (GAC). Optimal design of experiments using Taguchi’s methodology has been applied to study the effects of various parameters, viz adsorbent dose, initial pH, contact time, initial concentrations, and temperature on the simultaneous removal of Py, , and . orthogonal array of Taguchi design has been used for parameter optimization for the sorption of Py, and , by RHA and GAC. The ANOVA shows that the initial concentration of is the most significant parameter with 27.6% and 27.8% contribution to the for raw and signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio data, respectively, for RHA. For GAC, the adsorbent dose is the most significant parameter with 32.2% and 17.5% contribution to the for raw and S/N ratio data, respectively. The interactions between initial concentrations also contribute significantly to the overall sorption. Using the optimum conditions obtained by Taguchi’s experimental design, the respective percent removal of Py, , and was found to be %, %, and by RHA, and , , and by GAC. The spent RHA and GAC can be used as fuels in furnaces.
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Acknowledgments
The financial assistance provided by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Govt. of India and Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee to Dr. Dilip H. Lataye is gratefully acknowledged. DHL also thanks Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (India) for allowing him to undertake Ph.D. work under QIP at IIT Roorkee.
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Received: Oct 24, 2008
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Published online: Mar 11, 2009
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