Adsorption of Safranin O Dye by Alginate/Pomegranate Peels Beads: Kinetic, Isotherm and Thermodynamic Studies

Amina Abbaz, Sihem Arris, Gianluca Viscusi, Asma Ayat, Halima Aissaoui, Yasser Boumezough, Annarosa Gugliuzza · 2023

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Amina Abbaz and six colleagues turn fruit waste into dye-eating beads, in a study published in two thousand twenty-three. Textile dyes like Safranin O pollute water and resist breakdown. Pomegranate peels, normally discarded, might help clean it up.

Beads were gelled from sodium alginate blended with pomegranate peel material. Batch tests varied contact time, dye concentration, acidity, bead dose, and temperature. The beads grabbed dye fast, reaching equilibrium within about thirty minutes. Adsorption followed pseudo-second-order kinetics and depended mainly on concentration, barely on acidity. Kinetic, isotherm, and thermodynamic analyses together describe the binding. Using food waste as the active ingredient cuts cost while removing a second waste stream from the environment.

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CREATORAmina Abbaz, Sihem Arris, Gianluca Viscusi, Asma Ayat, Halima Aissaoui, Yasser Boumezough, Annarosa Gugliuzza
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE46 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10671396

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