Investigation of Kinetics and Equilibrium Isotherms of Direct Red 12B Dye Adsorption on Hazelnut Shells

Abstract

In this work, efficiency and performance of Hazelnut shells (HS) adsorbent was examined for the 
removal and recovery of Direct Red 12B (DR12B) from wastewater. The absorbance of DR12B was measured 
spectrophotometrically at λmax=523 nm before and after adsorption of DR12B. The maximum removal was 
99.8% for 30 mg L–1
of DR12B concentration on 0.3 gr HS adsorbent. Acidic pH was favourable for the 
adsorption of DR12B. The influence of variables including pH, concentration dye, particle size, amount of 
adsorbent, temperature, in column method and kinetics, isotherm, contact time on the dye removal has been 
investigated in batch method by one at a time optimization method. The effect of foreign cations, anions and 
other dyes was investigated on removal efficiency. In order to investigate the efficiency of DR12B adsorption on 
the HS, pseudo-first-order, pseudo-second-order, Elovich and intra-particle diffusion kinetic models were studied.
The graphical correlation of various adsorption isotherm models like, Langmuir, Freundlich and Tempkin have 
been carried out for this adsorbent.