Removal of methylene blue by adsorption onto activated carbon developed from Ficus carica bast

Pathania, Deepak; Sharma, Shikha; Singh, Pardeep

doi:10.1016/j.arabjc.2013.04.021

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Removal of methylene blue by adsorption onto activated carbon developed from Ficus carica bast

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Pathania, Deepak, Sharma, Shikha, Singh, Pardeep·2017·Arabian Journal of Chemistry

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In this study, activated carbon was developed from Ficus carica bast (FCBAC). The experiments were carried out to explore methylene blue (MB) uptake by FCBAC. The influence of various experimental factors such as contact time, initial dye concentration, adsorbent dosage, temperature and pH of dye solution was investigated. The adsorption equilibrium was represented with Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin isotherm models. Langmuir and Tempkin equations were found to have the correlation coefficient value in good agreement. Adsorption of MB onto FCBAC followed pseudo second order kinetics. The calculated values of ΔH°, ΔS° and ΔG° were found to be 21.55 kJ/mol, 76.24 J/mol K and −1.55 kJ/mol, respectably. Adsorption process was spontaneous and endothermic in nature.

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The negative ΔS values for both MB and CR were ascribed to the adsorbates losing randomness in the solid-solute interface during the adsorption process.
“The negative value in both MB and CR for ΔS was ascribed to the fact that the adsorbates lose randomness in the solid-solute interface during the adsorption process47,58,79–81.”
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Section 3.5, “Adsorption thermodynamics,” reports a positive ΔS° of 76.24 J/mol K for MB adsorption, contrary to the claimed negative value. The paper studies MB adsorption and provides no result for CR or an explanation involving loss of randomness at the interface. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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Authors: Pathania, D., Sharma, S., & Singh, P.
Affiliations: Shoolini University (IN)
Corresponding author: Pathania, Deepak
ORCID: Pathania, Deepak
Singh, Pardeep
Venue: Arabian Journal of Chemistry
Publisher: Scientific Scholar
Published: 2017-02
Volume: 10
Pages: S1445-S1451
ISSN: 1878-5352 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.arabjc.2013.04.021
OpenAlex: W1974220999
Cited by: 1,028
References: 23
Citations by year: 2026: 52 · 2025: 78 · 2024: 77 · 2023: 122 · 2022: 133 · 2021: 164 · 2020: 164 · 2019: 128 · 2018: 76 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 3
FWCI: 5.54
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: hybrid
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Licence: cc-by-nc-nd
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Locations: Arabian Journal of Chemistry (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Coagulation and Flocculation Studies
Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Adsorption, diffusion, and thermodynamic properties of materials
Keywords: methylene blue, adsorption, activated carbon, dye removal, Langmuir isotherm, Temkin isotherm, Freundlich isotherm, pseudo-second-order kinetics, adsorption thermodynamics, low-cost biosorbent

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