ADSORPTIVE REMOVAL OF BASIC DYES FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION USING

NATURALLY OCCURRING CLAY MINERAL

Neeraj Kumari and Monika Datta*
Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 (India)
Email : *monikadatta_chem@yahoo.co.in
Objective: To investigate the adsorption efficiency of naturally occurring clay mineral, Montmorillonite for the removal of basic dyes, Thioflavin T and Fuchsin Basic from aqueous solution.

 Fuchsin Basic (FB) is a Tetrahedral Sheet (SiO4)  Thioflavin T (TFT) is a cationic

cationic dyes belongs to dyes belongs to thiazole group
Octahedral Sheet (AlO6)
triphenymethane group as chromophoric group and
as chromophoric group Tetrahedral Sheet (SiO4) used as coloring agent in textile
and used as coloring M M
industry and as a staining agent
M
M Thioflavin T dye
agent in various M in histology and cytology.
M M Interlayer ions (Na+, Ca2+)

Basal Spacing,
M
industries such as textile
Oxygen  Yellow color produced by the dye is difficult to remove from water
Fuchsin Basic dye and paper.
Silicon bodies.

 Exposure to FB dye by physical means, inhalation or ingestion Magnesium CONCLUSION

may cause diarrhea, nausea, irritation to skin and respiratory H2O Molecules
 67mg/g and 102mg/g of TFT and FB dye adsorbed on to Mt at pH
tract.
10 within 30 minutes.
MONTMORILLONITE (Mt)
EXPERIMENTAL  The equilibrium adsorption data was found to be best fitted to
Langmuir Isotherm
 The removal efficiency of Montmorillonite (Mt) for TFT and 12 Langmuir adsorption isotherm model.
FB dyes is investigated as a function of: 10 TFT Dye KINETIC DATA  Pseudo second order kinetic model fitted very well with
 pH of dye solution 8 experimental data indicating chemisorption.
10
Pseudo Second Order
 Value of RL (Langmuir isotherm) and 1/n (Freundlich isotherm)
Ce/qe

 Contact time for batch extraction 6

4 8
 Initial concentration of dye solution FB Dye TFT Dye found to be less than 1 suggesting a favorable adsorption process.
 The amount of uptake of dye was calculated using following
2
6  The interaction between cationic dyes and negatively charged clay
0
t/qt

equation: 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 4

also supported by XRD and FT-IR techniques.
Ce
𝑪𝒊 − 𝑪𝒆 FB Dye
FUTURE PROSPECT
𝒒𝒆 = × 𝟏𝟎𝟎 2
𝑪𝒊
ISOTHERM DATA 0
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Dye adsorbed clay behaves as pigment can be used as coloring agent
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
t (minutes)
in various field such as in paint, inkjet, plastic industry.
13.0 Mt, 2θ = 6.2°
12.5 Mt-TFT dye, 2θ = 6.04°
12.0 Mt-FB dye, 2θ = 5.52°
Uptake of dye (mgg )
-1

12.6
11.5

11.0
FT-IR SPECTRA
12.4 Adsorption studies of
Intensity Counts

TFT Dye
Uptake of dye (mgg )

10.5 FB Dye
-1

10.0
12.2 TFT and FB dye as a
TFT Dye
9.5 12.0 FB Dye function of initial
9.0
0 2 4 6 8 10
concentration
11.8 FB Dye
pH of dye solution
11.6 100

Adsorption studies of 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 80 TFT Dye

Uptake of dye (mgg )
-1

Contact time (minutes)

TFT and FB dye as a
%T

60
function of pH of dye Adsorption studies of 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
40 TFT Dye
solution TFT and FB dye as a 2θ degree Mt
20
FB Dye
REFERENCES
function of contact time
0
0 200 400 600
-1
Concentration (mgL )
800 1000
XRD PATTERN  I. Hassan, M. Kiransan, R. C. Soltani, A. Khataee, S. Karaca,
2015. Turk. J. Chem. 39, 734 – 749.
MECHANISM OF ADSORPTION 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500
Wavenumber (cm-1)
 H. Ouasif, S. Yousfi, M.L. Bouamrani, M. El Kouali , S.
Benmokhtar, M. Talbi, 2013. J. Mater. Environ. Sci. 4, 1-10.
FB DYE ADSORBED
MONTMORILLONITE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTERACTION OF FB DYE
WITH MONTMORILLONITE MONTMORILLONITE The authors wish to express their sincere thanks to:
 Head, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi
MONTMORILLONITE TFT DYE ADSORBED
 Director, USIC, University of Delhi
MONTMORILLONITE
 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
INTERACTION OF TFT DYE
WITH MONTMORILLONITE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC IMAGES for providing necessary facilities and financial support.

3rd International Conference on Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposite (ICNM, 2015), Hindustan College of Science and Technology, Farah, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.