Industrial By-Products as Potentially Economic and Promising Adsorbents for Removing Dyes from Effluents: A Review Study

Document Type : Review Article

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1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran. Department of Applied Researches, Chemical, Petroleum & Polymer Engineering Research Center, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

3 Research and Technology Center of Shiraz Petrochemical Company

10.22036/pcr.2023.396003.2332

Abstract

Exposure to pigment waste effluents is important because a little amount of dyes in poisonous water is visible and has ruinous effects on humans and the ecosystem, and has been presented as a serious environmental obstacle. Lately, the outreach of technologies that can diminish contaminants to the permissible surface has been thought-out. Of all the offered techniques, biosorption is one of the most popular techniques for eliminating contaminants from wastewater. Adsorption is an effective method to treat chromatic effluents and a fruitful route to protect the ecosystem. Diverse categories of economic and productive adsorbents that are compatible with the ecosystem are utilized to omit dyes. Amongst the economic adsorbents, the utilization of industrial wastes is so usual. The preponderances of these compounds' utilization are low cost, optimal yield, facile availability, excellent recyclability, and high adsorption capacity. Based on the considered the previous study, FA, iron-containing waste, blast furnace dust industrial- by product provided for favourable Percentage removal efficiency (%) and adsorption capacity to remove dyes under optimal conditions, proving their potential and unique characteristics for removal dyes. This study focuses on the examination of Hazards and various types of dyes, as well as an investigation into the process of biosorption.

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Industrial By-Products as Potentially Economic and Promising Adsorbents for Removing Dyes from Effluents: A Review Study

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