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III. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE, ART & CULTURE
ECSAC’18 – NORTHERN CYPRUS
Gazimağusa, October12-14, 2018

OP-10 ADSORPSION OF BASIC BLUE 3 IN A FIXED-BED COLUMN FROM
AQUEOUS SOLUTION USING APRICOT STONE SHELL

Ramazan ORHAN , Aygül ASLAN 1
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* Corresponding author.
1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Fırat University, Elazıg, Turkey

Pollutants formed as a result of industrial processes affect human health considerably. Therefore, industrial waste-
water must be treated using various methods before being given to streams, lakes, sea or other receiving media. One
of organic matter in the high proportions found in industrial wastewater is also dyes that is the daily 7x10 tons pro-
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duction. The wastewaters containing dye causes the forming toxic and carcinogenic aromatic amines in anaerobic
conditions and adversely affects biological life in the aquatic by preventing the transition of light into the water. In
addition, when such pollution is contacted with, it causes cancer, mutation and skin diseases. In order to eliminate of
such pollutants in industrial wastewaters; various treatment technologies such as chemical precipitation, ultrafiltration,
reverse osmosis, ion exchange, membrane filtration and adsorption are applied. Among these methods, adsorption is
accepted as the most effective method due to its high adsorption capacity, easy use and low operating cost.
The adsorption experiments were carried out in a glass column with an internal diameter of 1.5 and length of 18
cm at 30±2°C temperature. A series of column experiments using apricot stone shell was performed to determine the
breakthrough curves with varying dye flow rate (5–10 mLmin ), initial BB3 dye concentration (10–30 mgL ) and
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adsorbent bed height (1.5–2.5 cm). High bed height, low flow rate and high initial dye concentration were found to
be the better conditions for maximum dye adsorption. The obtained experimental data were analyzed to fitting to the
Thomas and the Yoon-Nelson model.

Keywords: Adsorption, Basic Blue 3, Fixed-Bed Column, Apricot Stone Shell

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