Removal of Malachite Green from Aqueous Medium Employing Polyurethane Foam as Adsorbent and Sodium Dodecylsulfate as Carrier

Leite, Breno Tenório; Robaina, Nicolle Figueira; dos Reis, Luis Gustavo Teixeira; Pereira Netto, Annibal Duarte; Cassella, Ricardo Jorgensen

Removal of Malachite Green from Aqueous Medium Employing Polyurethane Foam as Adsorbent and Sodium Dodecylsulfate as Carrier

2012

Leite, Breno Tenório | Robaina, Nicolle Figueira | dos Reis, Luis Gustavo Teixeira | Pereira Netto, Annibal Duarte | Cassella, Ricardo Jorgensen

The present work describes a detailed study about the adsorption of malachite green (MG) by a polyether-type polyurethane foam (PUF) using sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) as a carrier. The adsorption process was based on the formation of a hydrophobic ionic-pair between the MG cationic dye and the dodecylsulfate anion, which presented high affinity for the PUF. The manifold employed in the study was built up by adjusting a cylinder of PUF with 200 mg in the arm of an overhead stirrer, which was soaked (and stirred) in the solution containing the dye and SDS. The adsorption process was characterized in relation to equilibrium and kinetic aspects. Langmuir (r 2 = 0.842) and Freundlich (r 2 = 0.996) isotherms were also employed for modeling the system as well as the Nernst partition law (r 2 = 0.999). A study about the recovery of MG and the PUF regeneration was conducted, and the acetonitrile was the most efficient solvent for the desorption of the adsorbed ionic pair. The obtained results showed that the concentration of SDS added to the medium plays an important role on the adsorption process, which can be better described by employing a second-order kinetic model.

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