Using of magnetized and non-magnetized tomato industrial processing solid waste in remediation of Reactive Blue 19 dye aqueous solution

Abstract

In this study, the removal performance of the Reactive Blue 19 (RB19) dye of the magnetized and non-magnetized industrial tomato solid waste (TW) from the aqueous medium was investigated. The properties of the prepared TW and magnetically modified TW (MTW) bio-sorbents were illuminated using XRD, BET, SEM, VSM, FT-IR and Boehm titration analysis techniques. The optimal conditions for sorption of RB19 by both sorbents were identified. The kinetics and equilibrium data of RB19 sorption by both sorbents were found to match the pseudo-second-order kinetic and Langmuir isotherm models, respectively, with high correlation coefficients. The maximum RB19 sorption capacity under the optimum conditions determined by TW and MTW was determined as 38.76 and 58.14 mg/g, respectively. Thermodynamic parameters calculated for RB19 sorption by both sorbents showed that the processes were spontaneous and exothermic.

Keywords:

• Magnetic bio-sorbent
• magnetic separation
• Reactive Blue 19 dye
• sorption
• tomato processing waste

Acknowledgments

The authors are sincerely thankful to the Scientific Research Projects Coordinator of Dicle University (Grant No: ZGEF.17.024) for providing financial support for this study.