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Evaluation of adsorption potential of bamboo biochar for metal-complex dye: equilibrium, kinetics and artificial neural network modeling

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Metal-complex dyes are widely used in textile industry, but harmful to the environment and human health due to aromatic structure and heavy metal ions. The objective of this work was to evaluate the adsorption potential of bamboo biochar for the removal of metal-complex dye acid black 172 from solutions. Freundlich model was more suitable for the adsorption process of bamboo biochar than Langmuir isotherm, indicating multilayer adsorption of acid black 172 on a heterogeneous bamboo biochar surface. Adsorption kinetics analysis of pseudo-second-order and Weber–Morris models revealed that intraparticle transport was not the only rate-limiting step. The bamboo biochar exhibited a good adsorption performance even at high ionic strength. Analysis based on the artificial neural network indicated that the temperature with a relative importance of 29 % appeared to be the most influential parameter in the adsorption process for dye removal, followed by time, ionic strength, pH and dye concentration.

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This work was supported in part by Grants from the Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province (2010C13G2010074), National Natural Science Foundation of China (31070079), the Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province (2008C13014-3), the International Cooperation Project in Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province (No. 2008C14038), the National Key Technology Rand D Program (2012BAC17B04), and Open Funding Project of the Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Y. Yang & J. Wang

  2. College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Y. Yang & Y. Zhao

  3. China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, 310006, China

    X. Lin

  4. Wuhan Land Trade Center, Wuhan, 430014, China

    B. Wei

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Yang, Y., Lin, X., Wei, B. et al. Evaluation of adsorption potential of bamboo biochar for metal-complex dye: equilibrium, kinetics and artificial neural network modeling. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 11, 1093–1100 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-013-0306-0

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