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Novel Adsorbent from Iron Ore Concentration Tailings for Toxic Cationic Dye Removal from Water

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Proceedings of the 3rd Pan American Materials Congress

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A novel adsorbent (FB-mZVI ) was prepared, using tailings from iron ore concentration plants, fly ash and bentonite, to remove crystal violet (CV) and methylene blue (MB) from polluted water . The adsorbent was prepared as cylindrical-shape pellets to easily separate it from the water after the adsorption process. The statistical orthogonal method was used to evaluate the factors determining the synthesis of FB-mZVI. Batch experiments revealed that the optimum mass ratio of fly ash, bentonite, iron ore tailings and palm kernel shell was 2:2:1:1. And in the synthesis of FB-mZVI adsorbent, the optimum reaction temperature was 800 °C, the reaction time was 10 min and the heating rate was 10 °C/min. SEM Characterization revealed that the adsorbent was highly porous and constituted by Fe0 particles finely dispersed on an aluminosilicate matrix. The adsorbent showed to have a superior adsorption capacity for CV and MB when compared to other conventional adsorbents. The adsorption kinetics and isotherms of CV and MB on FB-mZVI adsorbents could be expressed by the pseudo-second-order model and Langmuir isotherm.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment (No. SKLECRA2013FP12) and the Public science and technology research funds projects of ocean, China (201105020). The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their recommendations and comments. Also, Y. Wang would like to thank the State Scholarship Fund organized by the China Scholarship Council for offering her the scholarship during her joint Ph.D. studying in Mexico.

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  1. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, People’s Republic of China

    Yongmei Wang, Teng Zhang, Teza Mwamulima & Changsheng Peng

  2. Laboratorio de Quimica de Superficie, Instituto de Metalurgia, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Av. Sierra Leona 550, San Luis Potosí, C.P. 78210, Mexico

    Yongmei Wang & Alejandro López-Valdivieso

  3. Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Qingdao, 266100, People’s Republic of China

    Changsheng Peng

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  1. Dept. of Nanoengineering, MC 0448, University of California-San Diego Dept. of Nanoengineering, MC 0448, LA JOLLA, California, USA

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  3. UTN-National University of Technology , Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  4. Universidad de Antioquia , Medellín, Colombia

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  9. Division of Materials Sci & Engg, Hanyang University Division of Materials Sci & Engg, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

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Wang, Y., López-Valdivieso, A., Zhang, T., Mwamulima, T., Peng, C. (2017). Novel Adsorbent from Iron Ore Concentration Tailings for Toxic Cationic Dye Removal from Water. In: Meyers, M., et al. Proceedings of the 3rd Pan American Materials Congress. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52132-9_57

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