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Adsorption of dyes using different types of clay: a review
Aderonke Ajibola Adeyemo1 Idowu Olatunbosun Adeoye2 Olugbenga Solomon Bello2
Received: 15 September 2014 / Accepted: 11 August 2015 / Published online: 2 September 2015 The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abstract Increasing amount of dyes in the ecosystem particularly in wastewater has propelled the search for more efcient low-cost adsorbents. The effective use of the sorption properties (high surface area and surface chemistry, lack of toxicity and potential for ion exchange) of different clays as adsorbents for the removal of different type of dyes (basic, acidic, reactive) from water and wastewater as potential alternatives to activated carbons has recently received widespread attention because of the environmental-friendly nature of clay materials. Insights into the efciencies of raw and modied/activated clay adsorbents and ways of improving their efciencies to obtain better results are discussed. Acid-modied clay resulted in higher rate of dye adsorption and an increased surface area and porosity(49.05 mm2 and 53.4 %). Base-modied clay has lower adsorption capacities, while ZnCl2-modied clay had the least rate of adsorption with a surface area of 44.3 mm2 and porosity of 43.4 %. This review also explores the grey areas of the adsorption properties of the raw clays and the improved performance of activated/modied clay materials with particular reference to the effects of pH, temperature, initial dye concentration and adsorbent dosage on the adsorption capacities of the clays. Various challenges encountered in using clay materials are highlighted and a number of future prospects for the adsorbents are proposed.
Keywords Wastewater Dyes Clay Adsorption
Low-cost adsorbents
Introduction
Water pollution represents a great challenge and activated carbon is a common adsorbent used to remove hazardous contaminants from wastewater (Zakaria et al. 2009). Dyes are coloured compounds suitable for colouring textiles, wool, leather, paper and bres. Natural dyes such as indigo have been in use for over 5000 years. Synthetic dyes have replaced natural dyes because of their low cost and vast range of new colours (Gabriel and Hong 2008). Today, there are more than 10,000 dyes with different chemical structures available commercially (Arivoli and Thenkuzhali 2008). Efuents of textile, paper and pulp, paint, printing and cosmetic industries contain signicant amount of these dyes and must be treated to bring down their concentration to permissible limit before discharging into water bodies as required by environmental regulation act (Aksu 2005). The high solubility of dyes in water results in their wide dissemination into the environment, thus making them detrimental to crops, aquatic life and human health (Zhao et al. 2011). The increasing occurrence of many synthetic and natural organic substances in natural water led to the importance of using adsorption technique as one of the most effective methods of removing impurities from wastewater, because several dyes and their degradation (by-) products are toxic to living organisms (Abd El-Latif et al. 2010; Kannan and Sundaram 2001). Therefore, removal of dyes is an important aspect of wastewater treatment before discharge, as it is difcult to remove dyes from efuent because they are not easily degradable and are generally not removed from wastewater by the
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1 Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IndianInstitute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
2 Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, P. M. B. 4000, Ogbomoso,Oyo State, Nigeria
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conventional wastewater purication systems (Abd El-Latif et al. 2010; Kargi and Ozmihci 2004; Chen et al. 2001).
Adsorption is a major industrial separation technique for the purication of efuent media. It is a mass transfer operation through which a solid material can selectively remove dissolved components from an aqueous solution by attracting the dissolved solute to its surface. Therefore, it involves the interphase accumulation of concentrated substances at a surface or at the interphase. This separation technique nds wide application in the removal of dye from aqueous media. Specically, adsorption nds application in textile, leather, dyeing, cosmetics, plastics, food and paper industries where water recovery is very essential. To achieve and sustain efcient recovery of the desired water quality, a careful selection of adsorbent is of paramount importance (Abd El-Latif et al. 2010; Albarins and Hela 1993; Menkiti and Onukwuli 2011). However, the array of adsorbents available in our local markets is imported from other countries, in spite of the abundance of raw materials in Nigeria for the production of the required quantity of adsorbents for local industries (Menkiti and Onukwuli 2011). In literature, a number of adsorbents have been investigated for the removal of dyes from wastewater. Some examples amongst others include: apple pomace and wheat straw (Robinson et al. 2002); corncob and barley husk (Robinson et al. 2001); maize cob, wood and rice hull (Low and Lee 1997); banana stalk (Bello et al. 2012a); groundnut hull (Bello et al. 2012b; Din et al. 2009); oil palm ash (Foo and Hameed 2009a; Hasan 2008); oil palm fruit bre (Bello 2013); cocoa pod husks (Bello and Ahmad 2011a); spent tea leaves (Hameed 2009a); ginger waste (Ahmad and Kumar 2010); degreased coffee bean (Baek et al. 2010); mango peels (Bello and Ahmad 2011b); rice husk (Foo and Hameed 2009b; Yahaya et al. 2010a, b, 2011a, b); periwinkle shell (Bello et al. 2008; Bello and Ahmad 2011c, d); palm kernel shell (Zawani et al. 2009); coconut shell (Bello and Ahmad 2012b); Imperata cylindrica leaf (Bello and Semire 2012); rubber seed coat (Bello and Ahmad 2012a); ackee apple (Blighia sapida) seeds (Bello et al. 2013a); de-oiled soya (Mittal et al. 2005); cassava peel (Rajeshwarisivaraj et al. 2001); bean pods (Cabal et al. 2009); Luffa cylindrica bres (Demir et al. 2008); papaya seeds (Hameed 2009b); and y ash (Bello et al. 2013b). Very recently, the use of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) in dye adsorption has been explored (Adeyemo et al. 2012; Han et al. 2015; Yan et al. 2014; Chen et al. 2012a; Yue et al. 2014).
Activated carbon and clay are among many different adsorbents used in the adsorption technique (Zakaria et al. 2009). Activated carbon has been successfully used in removing coloured organic species and is the most widely used adsorbent due to its high capacity of adsorption of
organic materials (Joan et al. 1997; Markovska et al. 2001; Chen et al. 2001) and its effectiveness and versatility (Chen et al. 2011; Purkait et al. 2007). However, due to it being a limited natural resource, slow adsorption kinetics and low adsorption capacity of bulky adsorbate because of its microporous nature, disposal problems and also the high cost and difculty of regeneration, a search for cheap, effective adsorbents such as clay derivatives has becomes important (Abd El-Latif et al. 2010; Malik 2004; Nakagawa et al. 2004; Tanthapanichakoon et al. 2005; Valix et al. 2004; Joo et al. 2009). Clay minerals have been extensively studied because of their strong sorption and complexation ability (Sheng et al. 2012). In recent years, the use of soil clay materials to replace commercially available adsorbents has attracted much attention due to their low cost, ready availability, high surface area, lack of toxicity and potential for ion exchange (Chen et al. 2011; Gurses et al. 2006; Murray 2000). Their unique properties including high specic surface area and surface chemistry, a variety of surface and structural properties, chemical and mechanical stabilities give these materials a broad range of applications (Chen et al. 2011; Tulin and Gamze 2009; Liu and Zhang 2007). Many clay minerals are widely used due to their organic molecule adsorptiondesorption properties (Al-Asheh and Abu-Aitah 2003; Hu et al. 2005; Kumar 2006; Ozcan et al. 2007).
Clay refers to a naturally occurring material composed primarily of ne-grained minerals, which is/might be plastic in nature at appropriate water contents and will harden when dried or red. Although clay usually contains phyllosilicates, it may contain other materials that may impart plasticity and harden when dried or red. Associated phases in clay may include materials that do not impart plasticity and organic matter (Guggenheim and Martin 1995). Clay minerals are hydrous aluminosilicates with ne particle size; they are composed of two basic building blocks: siliconoxygen tetrahedron (Si2O5)2- and
aluminium octahedron (gibbsite sheet). Tetrahedral sheets are composed of individual tetrahedrons which share every three out of four oxygens. They are arranged in a hexagonal pattern with the basal oxygens linked and the apical oxygens pointing up/down. Octahedral sheets are composed of individual octahedrons that share edges composed of oxygen and hydroxyl anion groups with Al3?, Mg2? and Fe2? typically serving as the coordinating cation. These octahedrons are arranged in a hexagonal pattern (Guggenheim and Martin 1995; Zakaria et al. 2009).
Clay can remove approximately 70 % of the waste of water in a water removal system and the remaining 30 % can be removed using activated carbon (Guggenheim and Martin 1995; Zakaria et al. 2009). The fate and mobility of adsorbates are greatly affected by their strong interaction with natural clay and oxide minerals that are widely present in the
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natural environment (Sheng et al. 2013; Miller et al. 2010; Miller and Wang 2012; Parekh et al. 2008; Rao et al. 2007). The uptake process is generally affected by several environmental factors such as quantity and type of ions, solution pH, ionic strength, temperature and type of dye (Sheng et al. 2011, 2013; Yang et al. 2011b). Temperature plays a signicant role in the dynamic uptake of metal ions, the transformation of surface complexation structures and the stability of various metal precipitates (Yang et al. 2011a).
Naturally occurring raw and modied clays have shown good results as adsorbents for the removal of various metals, organic compounds and dyes (Guggenheim and Martin 1995; Zakaria et al. 2009). Fan and co-workers investigated the effects of pH, ionic strength and temperature on the sorption of Eu(III) on attapulgite in the presence and absence of fulvic acid (FA) and humic acid (HA). The results indicated that the sorption of Eu(III) on attapulgite was strongly dependent on pH and ionic strength and independent of temperature at low pH, despite slight increase with increasing temperature at high pH. The mechanism and species of Eu(III) sorption to attapulgite were changed in the different addition sequences. The presence of natural organic matter and pH values had signicant inuence on the species of Eu(III), which is crucial to the chemical behaviour of Eu(III) in the environment (Fan et al. 2009). The sorption of Co(II) and Sr(II) on kaolinite, illite, hectorite and montmorillonite studied by Chen and Hayes under a range of pH and background electrolyte showed that Co(II) formed different types of surface complexes on the clay surfaces depending on solution pH and Na ion concentration, while the Na ion concentration dependence of the Sr(II) sorption experiments suggested weaker bonding between sorbed Sr and the solid surfaces, regardless of pH conditions and sorbent. The results revealed signi-cant implications for the migration potential of Co and Sr in the environment, because the formation of outer-sphere Co complexes on clay mineral surfaces at low pH, and of Sr complexes at any pH, regardless of the clay type, suggested that major cations, such as Mg and Ca, might be able to effectively displace these metal ions from sorption sites, resulting in increased metal ion mobility. In contrast, at high pH, Co forms co-precipitates, making it difcult for Co to be displaced by competing cations, signicantly reducing Co mobility (Chen and Hayes 1999). Investigation of the nature of surface complexes formed on Ni uptake onto montmorillonite revealed the formation of Ni inner-sphere mononuclear surface complexes located at the edges of montmorillonite platelets, and thus heavy metals binding to edge sites is a possible sorption mechanism for dioctahedral smectites. The diffusion of Ni atoms into the montmorillonite structure was not the dominant uptake mode and the formation of new Ni nucleation products with time might be excluded. Data analysis revealed that the surface complexes
either became more ordered with time or that the NiAl coordination numbers slightly increased with increasing reaction time. They concluded that molecular-level information was crucial for improving mechanistic models on the long-term fate of heavy metal in the geosphere, because the attachment of metal ions specically bound to clay mineral surfaces can severely reduce their bioavailability and mobility in soil and water environments (Daehn et al. 2003).
We hereby sum up some signicant contributions made in the adsorption of dyes using clay materials, highlighting specically the efciency of these materials in removing dyes from waste and wastewater. The present work aims to summarize some examples of clay materials used in their raw and/or modied/activated forms as adsorbents for dyes from aqueous solutions or suspensions. We further analyse critically their adsorption properties and the pitfalls of the investigations studied so far.
Some types of clay materials and their uses
Clays are distinguished from other ne-grained soils by differences in size and mineralogy. Silts, which are ne-grained soils that do not include clay minerals, tend to have larger particle sizes than clays, but there is some degree of overlap in both particle size and other physical properties and there are many naturally occurring deposits which include silts and also clay. The distinction between silt and clay varies by discipline. Geologists and soil scientists usually consider the separation to occur at a particle size of 2 lm (clays being ner than silts); sedimentologists often use 45 lm and colloid chemists use 1 lm (Guggenheim and Martin 1995).
Depending on the academic source, there are three or four main groups of clays: kaolinite, montmorillonite smectite, illite and chlorite. Kaolinite group includes the mineral kaolinite, dickite, halloysite and nacrite. The smectite group includes pyrophyllite, talc, vermiculite, sauconite, saponite, nontronite and montmorillonite. The illite group includes the clay micas. Illite is the only common mineral (Jaafar 2006). Chlorites are not always considered clay; sometimes they are classied as a separate group within the phyllosilicates. There are approximately 30 different types of pure clays in these categories, but most natural clays are mixtures of these different types, along with other weathered minerals. Varve (or varved clay) is clay with visible annual layers, formed by seasonal differences in erosion and organic content. This type of deposit is common in former glacial lakes. When glacial lakes are formed, there is very little movement of the water that makes the lake and these eroded soils settle on the lake bed. This allows such an even distribution on the different layers of clay. Quick clay is a unique type of marine clay
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indigenous to the glaciated terrains of Norway, Canada, Northern Ireland, and Sweden. It is a highly sensitive clay, prone to liquefaction, which has been involved in several deadly landslides (Bailey 1980).
These differences among the clays provide an opportunity to investigate the impact of structure and layer charge on metal ion coordination to permanent charge sites. In addition, this choice of minerals provided various arrangements of aluminol and silanol surface hydroxyl sites (Chen and Hayes 1999).
Bentonite
Bentonite is an absorbent aluminium phyllosilicate, which is essentially impure clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite. There are different types of bentonite, each named after the respective dominant element, such as potassium(K), sodium (Na), calcium (Ca) and aluminium (Al). Experts debate a number of nomenclatorial problems with the classication of bentonite clays. Bentonite is usually formed from weathering of volcanic ash, most often in the presence of water. However, the term bentonite, as well as a similar clay called tonstein, has been used to describe clay beds of uncertain origin (Odom 1984). Bentonites have excellent rheological and absorbent properties (Murray 2002). For industrial purposes, two main classes of bentonite exist: sodium and calcium bentonite. Sodium bentonite expands when wet, absorbing as much as several times its dry mass in water. Because of its excellent colloidal properties (Odom 1984), it is often used in drilling mud for oil and gas wells and for geotechnical and environmental investigations. Calcium bentonite is a useful adsorbent of ions in solution (Lagaly 1995), as well as fats and oils, and is a main active ingredient of fullers earth, probably one of the earliest industrial cleaning agents (Robertson 1986). Calcium bentonite may be converted to sodium bentonite (termed sodium beneciation or sodium activation) to exhibit many of sodium bentonites properties by a process known as ion exchange (patented in 1935 by Germans: U. Hofmann and K. Endell). Bentonites are environmentally safe providing dust abatement procedures which are used in processing and handling (Murray 2002).
Bentonite also has the interesting property of adsorbing relatively large amounts of protein molecules from aqueous solutions. Therefore, it is uniquely useful in the process of wine making, where it is used to remove excessive amounts of protein from white wines. Were it not for this use of bentonite, many or most white wines would precipitate undesirable occulent clouds or hazes upon exposure to warmer temperatures as these proteins become denatured. It also has the incidental use of inducing more rapid clarication of both red and white wines. Bentonite can also be used as a desiccant due to its adsorption properties.
Bentonite desiccants have been successfully used to protect pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and diagnostic products from moisture degradation and extend shelf life. In fact, in most common packaging environments, bentonite desiccants offer a higher adsorption capacity than silica gel desiccants. Bentonite complies with the FDA for contact with food and drugs (Food and Drug Administration 2011).
As far as adsorptive properties are concerned, bentonite clay has an overall neutral charge; it has an excess negative charge on its lattice and is characterized by a three-layer structure with two silicate layers enveloping an aluminate layer. This arises from the partial replacement of tetrava-lent silica with trivalent aluminium that leads to the replacement of trivalent aluminium with divalent calcium. Since opposite charges attract, the negatively charged surface lattice of the bentonite clay may have an afnity for cationic dye. Thus, it could be assumed that bentonite clay may have a greater capacity to adsorb cationic dye as it exhibited high removal of cationic Basic Blue 9 and Thioavin T dyes (Ramakrishna and Viraraghavan 1997). Bentonite has been used to remove a number of chemical species: amines (Breen 1991); organic pigments (bcarotenes) (Gonzalez-Pradas et al. 1991); cations (Ni, Zn), phenol and ketones (Stockmeyer and Kruse 1991); phosphates (Gonzalez-Pradas et al. 1992); pesticides (Gonzalez-Pradas et al. 1993); chlorophyll (Gonzalez-Pradas et al. 1994); and non-ionic contaminants (Smith and Jaffe 1994; Espantalen et al. 2003). Bentonite has proven to be a promising economic material for the removal of dyes due to its abundance and availability (Bellir et al. 2010).
Kaolinite
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trioctahedral minerals antigorite, chamosite, chrysotile and cronstedite, with a formula of Al2Si2O5(OH)4 (Moore and
Reynolds 1997). Kaolin is a soft, white plastic clay consisting mainly of the mineral kaolinite which is a hydrated aluminium silicate Al2Si2O5(OH)4 (Murray 2002). The different minerals are polymorphs, i.e. they have the same chemistry but different structures. The general structure of the kaolinite group is composed of silicate sheets (Si2O5)
bonded to aluminium oxide/hydroxide layers (Al2(OH)4) called gibbsite layers (Moore and Reynolds 1997), which is a layered silicate mineral with one tetrahedral sheet linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral sheet of alumina octahedra (Deer et al. 1992). The primary structural unit of this group is a layer composed of one octahedral sheet condensed with one tetrahedral sheet. In the dioctahedral minerals, the octahedral sites are occupied by aluminium, while in the trioctahedral minerals, these sites are occupied by magnesium and iron. Kaolinite and halloysite are single-layer structures. Kaolinite, dickite and nacrite occur as plates; halloysite, which can have a single layer of water between its sheets, occurs in a tubular form. Kaolinite is a non-swelling clay (Moore and Reynolds 1997; Chen and Hayes 1999).
Rocks that are rich in kaolinite are known as kaolin or china clay (Pohl 2011). It is formed by the alteration of feldspar and muscovite. Kaolin deposits are classied as either primary or secondary. Primary kaolins result from residual weathering or hydrothermal alteration and secondary kaolins are sedimentary in origin. Kaolin is an important industrial mineral, which is used in many industrial applications (Murray 2002). The kaolinite group clay undergoes a series of phase transformations upon thermal treatment in air at atmospheric pressure. Endothermic dehydroxylation (or alternatively, dehydration) begins at 550600 C to produce disordered meta-kaolin, Al2Si2O7, but continuous hydroxyl loss (OH) is observed up to 900 C and has been attributed to gradual oxolation of the metakaolin (Bellotto et al. 1995).
The fact that kaolinite has heterogeneous surface charge is well known. The basal surface of kaolinites is believed to carry a constant structural charge, which is attributed to the isomorphous substitution of Si4? by Al3?. The charge on the edges is due to protonation/deprotonation of surface hydroxyl groups and therefore depends on the solution pH (Zhou and Gunter 1992). Kaolinite is the least reactive clay (Suraj et al. 1998). However, its high pH dependency enhances or inhibits the adsorption of metals according to the pH of the environment (Mitchell 1993), and this metal adsorption is usually accompanied by the release of hydrogen (H?) ions from the edge sites of the mineral. Adsorption may also take place on the at exposed planes of the silica and the alumina sheets (Spark et al. 1995). Kaolin is an environmentally safe material with no adverse
health problems as long as the ne particle dust is controlled.
Montmorillonite/smectites
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Montmorillonite is a very soft phyllosilicate mineral that typically forms in microscopic crystals, forming clay (Jaafar 2006). Montmorillonite, a member of the smectite family, has 2:1 expanding crystal lattice. The smectite group refers to a family of non-metallic clays primarily composed of hydrated sodium calcium aluminium silicate, a group of monoclinic clay-like minerals with general formula (Ca, Na, H)(Al, Mg, Fe, Zn)2(Si, Al)4O10(OH)2-nH2O (Grim 1962). Chemically, it is hydrated sodium calcium aluminium magnesium silicate hydroxide (Na,Ca)x(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 nH2O. Potassium, iron
and other cations are common substitutes and the exact ratio of cations varies with source (Jaafar 2006). The basic structural unit is a layer consisting of two inward-pointing tetrahedral sheets with a central alumina octahedral sheet. The layers are continuous in the length and width directions, but the bonds between these layers are weak and have excellent cleavage, allowing water and other molecules to enter between the layers causing expansion in the highness direction. Isomorphous substitution gives the various types of smectite and causes a net permanent charge balanced by cations in such a manner that water may move between the sheets of the crystal lattice, giving a reversible cation exchange and very plastic properties (Grim 1962).
Montmorillonites water content is variable; increasing greatly in volume when it absorbs water (montmorillonite
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swells with the addition of water similar to other clays) and it is the main constituent of the volcanic ash weathering product, bentonite. However, some montmorillonites expand considerably more than other clays due to water penetrating the interlayer molecular spaces and concomitant adsorption. The amount of expansion is largely due to the type of exchangeable cation contained in the sample. The presence of sodium as the predominant exchangeable cation can result in the clay swelling to several times its original volume. Hence, sodium montmorillonite has come to be used as the major constituent in non-explosive agents for splitting rock in natural stone quarries to limit the amount of waste, or for the demolition of concrete structures where the use of explosive charges is unacceptable (Jaafar 2006; Chen and Hayes 1999).
The particles are plate shaped with an average diameter of approximately 1 lm. The particle thickness is extremely small (*1 nm) (Jaafar 2006). Smectites possess a large specic area and a high structural charge (up to 1000 meq kg-1), imparting them with important sorptive properties. The uptake mechanisms of metal ions onto smectites depends on ionic strength, pH and the type of ion being adsorbed (Daehn et al. 2003).
Sepiolite/palygorskite
Sepiolite and palygorskite are natural clay minerals consisting of magnesium hydro silicate which belongs to the group of silicates (Espantalen et al. 2003). Although both minerals are Mg silicates, palygorskite exhibits more structural diversity and has less Mg and more Al than sepiolite. They are brous clay minerals with the ideal formula of Si12Mg8O30(OH)4(H2O)4 8H2O for sepiolite
and Si8Mg5O20(OH)2(H2O)4 4H2O for palygorskite (Cail
leres and Henin 1961). Their brous structure is formed as a result of storage of tetrahedral and octahedral oxide layers which has canal cavities along the bber; this peculiar structure provides high sorption capacity (Espantalen et al. 2003). The structures of both minerals are similar in that the tetrahedral pointing in the same direction form 2:1 ribbons that extend in the direction of the a-axis and have an average b-axis width of three linked tetrahedral chains in sepiolite and two linked chains in palygorskite (Singer 1989). When dispersed in water, these elongated crystals are inert and non-swelling and form a random lattice capable of trapping liquid and providing excellent thickening, suspending and gelling properties. These clays do not occulate with electrolytes and are stable at high temperatures, which make them uniquely applicable for many uses (Murray 2002). Furthermore, because of their natural hollow brick-like structure, they have great potential for the retention of micro-pollutants including heavy metal cations and dyes (Cailleres and
Henin 1961). Rectangular channels, which contain some exchangeable Ca and Mg cations and zeolitic water, lie between the ribbons and molecules of bound water lie at the edges of the ribbons (Liu and Zhang 2007).
Sepiolite has been used to adsorb Methylene Blue (MB) (Aznar et al. 1992); 4,40-bipyridyl (Akyuz et al. 1993a);
benzidine (Akyuz et al. 1993b), ammonium and ammonia (Bernal and Lopez-Real 1993); tetrahydropyran, tetrahydrofuran and 1,4-dioxan (Breen 1994).
Clay materials used as adsorbents for dye treatment
Bentonite
The most common and most effective type of clay used in water purication is bentonite which is an adsorbent and is generally impure clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite, although some may consist of the rare clay minerals,i.e. beidellite, saponite, hectorite and nontronite. The structure of montmorillonite is a gibbsite layer sandwiched between two silica sheets to form the structural unit (Tunega et al. 2002; Zakaria et al. 2009). The substitutions are mainly within the octahedral layer (Mg2?, Fe2?) and to a much less extent within the silicate layer (Al3?/Si4?). The chemical composition of the clay mineral is based on a hydroxyl-aluminosilicate framework. The crystal structures of the clay minerals are formed by a combination of sheets of silica tetrahedral and alumino octahedral. Part of the trivalent Al is substituted by divalent Mg or Fe in some cases. In such cases, substitution is accompanied by the addition of alkaline metals such as Na and K or alkaline earth metals such as Mg and Ca to provide charge balance (Zakaria et al. 2009). The adsorption behaviour of organophilic bentonites in contact with aqueous solutions of organic compounds was studied by Stockmeyer. Phenol, aniline, nitroethane, diethyl ketone, ethoxy acetic acid, maleic acid and hexadecyl pyridinium bromide were used as test substances. The investigated organoclays vary in the degree of their total cation exchange capacity (CEC) exchanged by organic counter ions (Stockmeyer 1991).
The ability of bentonite to remove malachite green (MG) from aqueous solutions was investigated for different adsorbate concentrations by varying the amount of adsorbent, shaking time, pH and temperature. Adsorption of the dye was studied by batch technique and it was observed that [90 % of dye removal was achieved by using 0.05 g of bentonite. Equilibrium between the dye and the bentonite was attained within 10 min. Three consecutive steps were involved in the removal of dye from water on bentonite. First, the adsorbate species migrated from the bulk liquid phase to the outer surface of adsorbent particles (lm
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Fig. 1 Effect of pH on the adsorption of malachite green oxalate onto bentonite and the relationship between the net negative/positive surface charge of the clay and pH of the solution (I = 0.01 M NaCl) (Tahir and Naseem 2006)
diffusion). Secondly, the dye species moved within the micro- and macro-pores of adsorbent particles (pore diffusion). Thirdly, the reaction of adsorbateadsorbent species took place on the surface.
The inuence of pH on the dye adsorption onto bentonite was studied while the dye concentration, shaking time and amount of bentonite were xed at 56.8 mg cm-3,
10 min and 0.05 g, respectively. The variation of MG adsorption on bentonite over a pH range of 2.010.0 revealed that the adsorption of the dye increased from 29 % to 91 % with an increase in pH of the solution from2.0 to 9.0 and then remained almost constant (Fig. 1). The adsorption of these charged dye groups onto the adsorbent surface was primarily inuenced by the surface charge on the adsorbent, which was in turn inuenced by the solution pH. The pHpzc (pH at point of zero charge) value for bentonite was 2.2. At pH values below pzc, the clay had net positive charge and would, therefore, be prone to electro-statically repel cations. Malachite green is a cationic basic dye as denoted by the presence of positive nitrogen ion in its structure. On dissolution, the oxalate ion enters the aqueous solution ensuring that the dye has an overall positive charge. The positive charge on the cationic dye ensured that it was attracted by an anionic adsorbent. The adsorption was maximum at pH 9, with almost 91 % removal of the dye; so at high pH, the solution in contact with the basal oxygen surface of the tetrahedral sheet will contain excess hydroxyls and thus the surface exhibited a CEC (Tahir and Naseem 2006).
The inuence of temperature on dye adsorption was investigated over the concentration ranges of 50, 70, 90 and 140 g cm-3 at 298, 308, 318 and 328 K under the optimized conditions of 10 min shaking time, 0.05 g of adsorbent and a pH of 5.6. Increase in temperature reduced the adsorption capacity of bentonite due to the enhancement of the desorption step in the mechanism. The mean energy of adsorption was determined over the same range of temperatures and was found to be between 1.00 and 1.13 kJ mol-1 corresponding to physical adsorption. The positive values of DH and DS suggested endothermic reaction, while the negative values of free energy change (DG) indicated that the adsorption was spontaneous (Table 1). The positive values of DS suggested the increased randomness at the solidsolution interface during desorption of MG oxalate on bentonite. During desorption of the dye, the adsorbed solvent molecules, which were displaced by the adsorbate species, gained more translational entropy than that lost by the adsorbate ions, thus allowing the prevalence of randomness in the system (Tahir and Naseem 2006).
Ehssan and co-workers studied the thermodynamics of adsorption of some dyes on Iraqi bentonite modied clay. The pH of the dye solution played an important role in the whole adsorption process and particularly on the adsorption capacity. The variation of Fast Green (FG) and crystal violet (CV) adsorption on modied clay over a broad range of pH showed that the adsorption of CV was lower at pH \ 7, but increased to higher values at pH [ 7, while the adsorption of FG was lower at pH [ 7, but increased to higher values at pH \ 7 (Fig. 2).
The mechanism of colour removal was by the migration of the dye molecule from the solution to the adsorbents particle and diffusion through the surface. The equilibrium time was reached within 30 min of operation for Iraqi bentonite-modied clay and the adsorption capacity was constant thereafter for both adsorbates in a 60 min reaction time. The thermodynamic parameters measured over a temperature range of 293333 K showed negative DG value (-1.94 kJ mol-1) for CV, indicating its feasibility and spontaneous nature for adsorption on the modied clay. The change in enthalpy (DH) for CV was found to be positive (3.38 kJ mol-1), conrming the endothermic
Table 1 Thermodynamic parameters for the adsorption of malachite green onto bentonite (Tahir and Naseem 2006)
Concentration of malachite green oxalate (mg cm-3)
DH (kJ mol-1) DS (kJ mol-1 K-1) -DG (kJ mol-1)
298 K 308 K 318 K 328 K
50 0.0134 0.0336 11.0054 10.6695 10.336 9.9976
70 0.0206 0.0088 2.8952 2.8063 2.7174 2.6285
90 0.0210 0.0065 2.1053 2.0405 1.9757 1.9109
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Fig. 2 Effect of pH on the removal of colour from aqueous solution of crystal violet and Fast Green (Ehssan et al. 2011)
nature of adsorption. However, the negative DH value for FG indicated the exothermic nature of the adsorption process. The maximum and minimum adsorption values were obtained at 3 ppm and 12 ppm concentrations, respectively, for FG, while the maximum and minimum adsorption values were obtained at 6 ppm and 12 ppm concentrations, respectively, for CV. The difference in % adsorption of these dyes on the surface of Iraqi bentonitemodied clay may be due to the presence of more or less irregular and defective edges. These played a signicant role in the adsorption phenomenon, as these edges struck the unsaturated part of the dyes and accelerated the removal of dye molecules (Table 2).
The adsorption capacity of CV was much higher than of FG, as observed when the uptake of FG decreased with an increase in temperature up to 50 C. This difference was related to the higher afnity of CV for the adsorbent surface than FG and may also be attributed to a tendency for the dye molecules to escape from the solid phase of the modied clay to the liquid phase of dye with an increase in temperature of the solution. Thermal treatment increased the adsorption of Iraqi bentonite-modied clay and the manufactured powder presented a homogeneous xation on the clay surface (Ehssan et al. 2011).
The effect of the contact time on the removal of MB from aqueous solutions using acid-activated Algerian
bentonite revealed that the MB adsorption was fast at the initial stage of the contact period, but became slower near equilibrium (120th200th min). This phenomenon was due to the fact that a large number of vacant surface sites were available for adsorption at the initial stage. The remaining vacant surface sites were difcult to occupy close to equilibrium, probably due to the slow pore diffusion of the solute molecules on the solid and the bulk phase. The increase of the initial concentration resulted in substantial increase in the amount of dye retained for the same quantity of bentonite, leading to increase in the amount of MB molecules adsorbed onto the free sites available on the surface of clay particles. However, when all the sites were occupied, the amount of MB molecules adsorbed became constant and there was formation of a monolayer (Bellir et al. 2010).
The removal efciency of MB was minimum at pH = 3(55.48 %) and reached maximum (91.65 %) for a pH value of 10 in the rst 5 min of the adsorption process. The dye uptake was found to be relatively small at low pH values; however, increase in the pH values by 45 units increased the rate of adsorption considerably. The effect of pH was reduced towards the end of the adsorption process (after 90 min of shaking time). At acidic pH, H? competed with dye ions for the adsorption sites on the bentonite surface, thereby inhibiting the adsorption of dye at low pH. However, in alkaline environment, there were possibly more negative charges present on the bentonite surface due to the deprotonation of the surface hydroxyl site (MOH), such as alumina and silica (AlOH and SiOH); thus, the number of ionizable sites on bentonite increased. The pH of the solution played an important role in the retention of MB, and thus the basic environment was the most suitable for the removal of MB (Bellir et al. 2010).
The adsorption capacities of the clay increased with increasing contact time and initial concentration, although it remained constant after 30 min for 10, 20 and 30 mg L-1
(Fig. 3). The acid-activated Algerian bentonite clay had a unique afnity towards MB as well as a relatively high mobility of this dye in aqueous solution (Bellir et al. 2010).
Natural bentonite, modied by thermal activation (TA), acid activation (AA) and combined acid and thermal activation (ATA) was used for the removal of diazo dye. The Congo Red (CR) adsorption increased with increase in contact time, with [95 % dye removal attained using modied bentonites in 6 h. The adsorption rate was very high in the rst 2 h, leading to 96.65, 92.75 and 91.62 % of CR removal using bentonite modied by ATA, AA and TA, respectively. On comparing these results to those of raw bentonite, approximately 20 % CR removal was enhanced by the ATA and AA bentonites in 4 h (Fig. 4a). The relatively high CR removal was attributed to the availability of a large number of vacant sites for CR
Table 2 Percent adsorption and distribution ratio (Kd) of FG and CV by modied clay (Ehssan et al. 2011)
Dyes conc. p.p.m Fast green Crystal violet
% Adso. Kd % Adso. Kd
3 97 38 87 138
6 77 31 90 144
9 76 30 87 139
12 68 27 81 129
15 73 29 83 132
18 72 29 84 135
21 74 30 85 136
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Fig. 3 Effect of the initial concentration on the adsorption of Methylene Blue at pH &4.7 (Bellir et al. 2010)
adsorption. CR adsorption increased with the initial dye concentration up to 1000 mg L-1 at the given adsorption conditions: T (25 C), pH (7.0), contact time (24 h), CR concentration (1000 mg L-1) and bentonite dosage (10 g L-1). ATA bentonite had the highest increase in adsorption capacity of 74.5 mg g-1, followed by AA bentonite (61.5 mg g-1) and TA bentonite (52.6 mg g-1), which were signicantly comparable to raw bentonite (RB)(20.8 mg g-1) (Fig. 4b) (Toor and Jin 2012).
The overall increase in adsorption capacity was 258 %
by ATA, 196 % by AA and 153 % by TA. The CR adsorption capacity of the bentonites followed the order: ATA [ AA [ TA [ RB. The CR adsorption on all the bentonite samples did not show a plateau suggesting that there was no formation of monolayer on the surface of the adsorbents. The steady increase in the adsorption with the initial dye concentration indicated that bentonite had very high potential for CR removal. The CR removal increased as the adsorbent dosage increased from ATA bentonite (88 %), AA bentonite (74 %) and TA bentonite (63 %) to nearly 100 %. CR adsorption increased gradually up to 14 with 2 g L-1 of bentonite dosage, but further increase in bentonite dosage beyond 14 g L-1 exhibited no signicant improvement in dye removal due to the attainment of equilibrium between the adsorbate and adsorbent under the experimental condition. Compared to ATA bentonite, a low equilibrium adsorption of 16 g L-1 was achieved by AA and TA bentonites. The increase in CR adsorption with 20 g L-1 of raw bentonite from 58 % to nearly 100 % was attributed to the increase in surface area of micropores and the increase in availability of vacant adsorption sites (Toor and Jin 2012).
The colour of CR solution changed from red to blue in the presence of inorganic acids in a pH range of 24. Under
alkaline condition, i.e. pH 1012, the CR solution remained red, but the red colour was different from the original colour of the solution due to the resonance between charged canonical structures. The chemical structure of bentonite varied with pH, viz., natural bentonite is basic in nature and bears a net negative charge on its surface in the presence of inorganic acids. The transformation in the clay structure resulted in the buildup of net positive charge on the clay surface. The effect of initial pH of 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 on the CR adsorption on TA, AA and ATA bentonites revealed that the pH changes had little impact on the CR adsorption performance using the raw and modied bentonites. While over 95 % CR removal was achieved using the three modied bentonites at pH 311, a slight decrease in the CR adsorption was observed at pH [ 10 attributed to the repulsion between the anionic dye molecules and negatively charged clay particles. The adsorption reactions via CR-activated bentonite systems resulted in a slight increase in the nal pH when the initial pH was\5. On the contrary, a decrease in the nal pH was observed in the
CRbentonite solution in which initial pH was 811.
Fig. 4 a Effect of contact time (SD 0.11, 0.42, 0.26, 0.61) on CR adsorption by bentonite modied by ATA, AA, TA and RB, respectively (Toor and Jin 2012). b Effect of initial dye concentration (SD 0.09, 0.23, 0.03, 0.19) on CR adsorption by bentonite modied by ATA, AA, TA and RB, respectively (Toor and Jin 2012)
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At temperatures of 25, 30, 40, 50 and 60 C, there was slight decrease in the CR adsorption on bentonites modied by ATA, AA and TA as the temperature increased, indicating that preferential adsorption may occur at a low temperature. The slight decrease in the CR adsorption in all the modied bentonites revealed that these adsorption reactions were exothermic and had favourable adsorption at a lower temperature as conrmed by the negative DH
values, indicating physisorption (range: -20 to 0 kJ mol-1). The dye molecules were held more strongly by ATA bentonite as indicated by the enthalpy of ATA bentonite which was higher than AA bentonite. The negative values of Gibbs energy indicated spontaneity and feasibility of the adsorption process with high preference of CR for the modied bentonites. Decrease in randomness at the solid/solution interface was observed as suggested by the negative DS values, and there was no signicant change in the internal structure of the adsorbents through CR adsorption onto the modied bentonites. The modication process by thermal and acid activation is a promising approach for enhancement of the adsorption capacity by 150250 % for removing synthetic dyes over a wide concentration range (Toor and Jin 2012).
Lian and his group studied the adsorption of CR from aqueous solutions onto Ca-bentonite. The removal efciency of CR onto Ca-bentonite by adsorption was initially rapid and slowed down gradually until it attained equilibrium. The effect of contact time on the percentage of colour removal at various temperatures examined at 100 mg L-1
concentration of CR showed that the contact time for CR was 480 min when the temperatures were between 20 and 40 C. However, the uptake was very rapid and attained equilibrium in 180 min at 50 C, achieving maximum percent removal of 95.92 % at 50 C (Fig. 5). Increase in temperature led to increased uptake of CR by Ca-bentonite, implying that the enthalpy change had positive values and the adsorption process was endothermic (Lian et al. 2009).
The maximum colour removal efciency occurred at pH 5(94.59 %) and the amount of dye adsorbed onto Ca-bentonite did not change signicantly in the pH range 610 (Fig. 6). Ca-bentonite can neutralize H? or OH- in acidic or alkaline media and this made the solution tend toward neutral due to its special structural properties, thus neutralizing the acidic pH of the dye solution. On the other hand, Ca-bentonite has high calcium content; thus, Ca2? can neutralize the OH- on the surface of Ca-bentonite, which decreased the effect of pH on the adsorption signicantly, i.e. Ca-bentonite can be suitable in wastewater treatment of similar dyestuffs at different pH values. The amount of dye adsorbed by Ca-bentonite increased from 23.25 to 85.29 mg g-1 at 20 C and natural pH (6.92) of the CR solution, with increasing initial dye concentration from 50 to 200 mg L-1. A large number of vacant surface sites were available for adsorption during the initial stage of treatment, and after a lapse of time it was difcult to occupy the remaining vacant surface sites, due to repulsive forces between the CR dye adsorbed on the surface of Ca-bentonite and the solution phase (Lian et al. 2009).
The adsorption process was explicitly highly dependent on the initial concentration of the solution. The negative values of DGo at different temperatures indicated the feasibility of the process and the spontaneous nature of the adsorption. The adsorption is endothermic as indicated by the positive DHo value (5.1376 kJ mol-1) and is physical in nature. Furthermore, slightly positive DSo value (0.0372 kJ mol-1 K-1) of the CR adsorption process indicated an irregular increase of the randomness at the Ca-bentonite solution interface during adsorption (Lian et al. 2009).
Kaolinite
The removal of MB from aqueous solution in a batch-stirred tank reactor using alginate/polyvinyl alcoholkaolin
Fig. 5 Effect of agitation time and temperatures on the extent of adsorption (Lian et al. 2009)
Fig. 6 Effect of pH on the percentage of colour removal of Congo Red (Lian et al. 2009)
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composite was reported by Abd El-Latif and co-workers. The thermal stability of the polymerkaolin composite evaluated using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) starting from 427 C was attributed to the loss of interstitial water in the kaolin structure, and the weight loss was 11.363 % in accordance with the known water ratio in kaolin. The morphology of the prepared composite revealed that the composite prepared from kaolin and PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) and alginate mixture had almost uniform porosity with pore diameter range of 3675 lm. The diameter of the composite beads ranged from 1.9 to 2.4 mm (Abd El-Latif et al. 2010). The beads produced from kaolin with mixed polymer (PVA and alginate) exhibited rubber-like elastic properties; PVA contributed strength and durability to the beads, whereas alginate improved the surface properties and reduced the tendency to agglomerate (Dave and Madamwar 2006).
The mechanical properties of the composite studied to determine its availability for column operations showed that the beads of the prepared composite have excellent mechanical strength under stirring for 72 h at 1000 rpm. The swelling behaviour of the beads revealed that the composite beads swelling in water increased with time till they reached equilibrium after 5 h. The produced polymer kaolin composite was suitable to be used in column operation after being swollen in water for 5 h to avoid column clogging during the treatment process. However, it was observed that the alginate and PVA matrix had a small dye uptake due to the hydroxide groups that are suitable for cationic dye removal. On the other hand, the presence of the polymer matrix enhanced the percentage dye removal than the free kaolin, due to the presence of hydroxide groups associated with the polymer matrix. The percentage dye removal increased from 70.3 % to 92.7 % after 360 min, upon using composite beads instead of free kaolin. The adsorption rate decreased through the rst adsorption hour, due to the diffusion limitation of dyes to reach to the active adsorption sites (kaolin) through the composite beads (Abd El-Latif et al. 2010).
The amount of MB removed by organickaolin composite increased, reaching a maximum value with increase in contact time and almost became constant, after 360 min when equilibrium was attained. There was no signicant increase in the percentage dye removal as the bead diameter increased from 0.5 mm to 2 mm; despite the fact that composite beads had swelling characteristics, there were no variation on both the rate and the percentage of dye removed for the swollen beads and the dry ones due to the effect of the different operating variables in the batch process that eliminated the swelling effect. The removal of MB dye increased with increasing composite dosage. Increasing the adsorbent dosage at constant MB concentration provided more available adsorption sites for the dye
and thus increased the extent of dye removal (Banat et al. 2003; Urses et al. 2006). However, the ratio of dye adsorbed to the composite (mg g-1) decreased with the increase in composite dosage from 3.37 to 1.53 mg g-1
(Abd El-Latif et al. 2010).
The removal of dye decreased from 100 to 61.6 % on increasing the initial dye concentration from 10 to 500 mg L-1 after 360 min; this was attributed to the increase of MB dye molecules adsorption onto the external surface of the organickaolin composite, which increased signicantly the local dye concentration, giving rise to the formation of aggregates of the dye on the composite particles. However, the increase of initial dye concentration from 10 to 500 mg L-1 led to an increase in the adsorption capacity of the dye onto composite from 1 to 30.8 mg g-1.
The effect of pH of the dye solution on the amount of dye adsorbed was studied by varying the initial pH under constant process parameters. The percentage removal of the MB solution after an adsorption period of 360 min was increased from 76 to 93.4 % between pH values 212. The removal capacity showed the same behaviour, as it increased from 1.52 to 1.87 mg g-1. The lower adsorption of MB at acidic pH was due to the presence of excess H? ions that competed with the dye cation for adsorption sites. As the pH of the system increased (pH [ 8), the number of positively charged available sites decreased, while the number of the negatively charged sites increased. The negatively charged sites favoured the adsorption of MB dye cation due to electrostatic attraction. The nal pH of the solution was found to decrease only slightly (by 0.5 -0.7 pH units) after adsorption of MB (in cationic form) with the release of H? ions from the active site of the adsorbent surface (Abd El-Latif et al. 2010).
The effect of stirring speed (in rpm) on the percentage removal of dye at different concentrations showed that the percentage removal affected the agitation speed for values between 0 and 100 rpm, thus conrming that the inuence of external diffusion on the sorption kinetic control played a signicant role. In contrast, there were small effects of agitation in the range of 100750 rpm; thus, while increasing the mixing rate from 750 to 1000 rpm, the percentage removal decreased from 93.3 to nearly 91.1 %. The decrease was attributed to an increased desorption tendency of dye molecules and/or having similar speed of organickaolin composite particles and adsorbate ions (i.e. the formation of a more stable lm around the organic kaolin composite particles). Increasing mixing speed to 750 rpm caused deformation of the stable lm, and disappearance of lm diffusion control resulted from the organickaolin composite particles and adsorbate ions that move at the same speed (Abd El-Latif et al. 2009).
The adsorptive capacity of natural and burnt kaolinitic clay for removal of CR dye was reported by Nwokem and
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co-workers. The amount of CR adsorbed per unit mass of adsorbent at equilibrium increased as pH increased from 2 to 5 for both natural and burnt kaolinitic clay, reaching a maximum at pH 5 with adsorption efciency of 84 % and 94 % for natural and burnt kaolinitic clay, respectively. The amount of dye adsorbed per unit mass of adsorbent remained constant with increasing pH until pH 9; thereafter adsorption decreased with increase in pH. Above pH 9, the negative charge density on the surface of the adsorbent decreased leading to a gradual decline in the removal ability of the clay. However, the plateau observed between pH values 5 and 9 indicated that the presence of high concentrations of hydroxonium ions did not inuence the kinetics of adsorption and, consequently, the removal was at its maximum. In addition, the acidbase dissociation of the hydroxylated oxides of the clay followed an ion exchange mechanism (Nwokem et al. 2012).
The removal efciency increased from 28 % to 51 % within 10 min on increasing the adsorbent dosage from0.25 to 1.0 g (for initial dye concentration 40 mg L-1,
solution volume 50 mL and at pH = 8, at 25 C). Similarly, at the conditions listed above, there was signicant increase in removal efciency as time was gradually increased to 60 min due to the fact that there were still active sites in each clay dosage; therefore, increase in contact time led to increased removal efciency until the sites were saturated. The removal efciency of the burnt clay was higher than that of the natural clay for each clay dosage investigated; thus, the burnt clay with a monolayer (maximum) adsorption capacity of 172.4148 mg g-1 has
greater capacity for the uptake of the CR dye as compared to 45.8930 mg g-1 for the natural clay (Nwokem et al. 2012).
Montmorillonite
The batch adsorption technique for the removal of MG and FG dyes using montmorillonite clay as adsorbent showed maximum adsorption at 3 9 10-4 and 6.3 9 10-4 M
concentrations of MG and FG dyes, respectively. 1.0 g adsorbent system showed optimum adsorption over varied amounts of adsorbent of 0.11.2 g using dye concentration of 3 9 10-5 M. Adsorptions of the dyes increased with increasing time and reached maximum removal at the adsorption equilibrium. Maximum adsorption capacities were obtained at 10 and 30 min for FG-montmorillonite and MG-montmorillonite clay systems respectively (Tahir et al. 2010).
The mean free energy of sorption for FG-montmorillonite clay system increased with the rise in temperature, indicating an increase in the dye sorption with the increase in temperature. Decrease in mean free energy of sorption with the increase in temperature for MG-montmorillonite clay system indicated less adsorption capacity at higher temperatures. The monolayer capacity for FG-montmorillonite system decreased with increase in temperature, indicating high afnity of FG at low temperatures, while MG-montmorillonite system monolayer capacity increased with increase in temperature. The values of DG for both systems were negative at different temperatures, which showed the spontaneous behaviour of the adsorption process (Table 3). Adsorption of both dyes on montmorillonite clay was exothermic in nature as reected in the Langmuir adsorption isotherm and also corroborated by the positive DH values. The DS values showed random behaviour.
The FG-montmorillonite and MG-montmorillonite systems showed about 97 % dye removal at 313 K in the comparative removal studies carried out at different temperatures.The montmorillonite clay can be efciently utilized as an adsorbent for the removal of toxic dyes from aqueous solutions according to surface morphology studies, which showed changes on the active sites of the adsorbent so much that the excess amounts of dye contents were adsorbed on the surface (Tahir et al. 2010).
The effects of adsorbent dose, initial pH, dye concentrations and temperature on Basic Blue 16 (BB16) adsorption by montmorillonitic clay revealed that the adsorption rates of the dye were very fast at the initial
Table 3 Thermodynamic parameters for the adsorption of malachite green and Fast Green dyes on montmorillonite clay (Tahir et al. 2010)
Dye Concentration (mol L-1) DH (kJ mol-1) DS (kJ deg-1 mol-1) DG (kJ mol-1)
303 K 308 K 313 K 318 K
Malachite green 0.7 9 10-4 2.016 1.496 -451.27 -458.72 -466.23 -473.71
9 9 10-4 0.405 3.939 -1193.10 -1212.80 -1232.50 -1252.19
1 9 10-4 0.787 2.726 -8285.19 -838.82 -852.41 -866.08
3 9 10-4 2.641 3.003 -907.26 -922.28 -937.29 -952.31
Fast green 4.2 9 10-4 0.422 1.951 -590.73 -600.48 -610.24 -619.98
6.3 9 10-4 0.304 2.376 -719.62 -731.50 -743.38 -755.26
8.3 9 10-4 0.198 2.684 -813.05 -826.47 -839.84 -853.31
1.6 9 10-3 0.142 2.816 -853.10 -867.18 -881.26 -895.34
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stages for all the four parameters tested, while it slowed gradually as the equilibrium was approached due to the reduction of available active sites on montmorillonitic clay. An inverse relationship was observed between BB16 removal and the adsorbent dosage. The amount of dye adsorbed onto montmorillonitic clay decreased with increase in adsorbent dose. The adsorption capacity of the adsorbent was maximum at pH 3.6 and further increase in pH resulted in a negative effect on BB16 adsorption due to the changes in swelling properties and surface chemistry of clay with pH as corroborated by Gurses et al. 2006 (Gunay et al. 2013).
The initial dye concentration affected the adsorption capacity and the equilibrium time as the adsorption process reached equilibrium rapidly at low dye concentrations, but the equilibrium time was longer at higher concentration. The initial BB16 concentration enhanced the adsorption capacity of montmorillonitic clay due to increased gradient between the dye solution and adsorbent. A higher gradient (1000 mg L-1) promoted the driving force for the transfer of dye molecules from the solution to the adsorbent pore surfaces. The temperature also had profound effect on the removal of BB16 at higher dye concentrations, although adsorption capacities were close at all temperatures at \500 mg L-1 initial BB16 concentration; this was attributed to increased penetration of dye molecules inside micropores of the adsorbent at higher temperatures (Gunay et al. 2013).
The spontaneous and feasible nature of BB16 adsorption by montmorillonitic clay was reected in the negative DG
values, as adsorption of BB16 was more favourable at higher temperatures and lower initial dye concentrations due to higher negative values of DG. The dye molecules were removed from the liquid medium by physisorption. The positive values of DS implied an increase in the degree of dispersion of the adsorbed species. The positive values of DH suggested that adsorption was an endothermic process and that heat was consumed during the adsorption of BB16 by montmorillonitic clay, which was also supported by an increase of adsorption capacity with temperature (Gunay et al. 2013).
Soil nanoclays
The amount of CV and MB adsorbed on soil clays (size \2000 and \100 nm) in aqueous solution increased with the increase in reaction time. For all the soil clays, the rate of dye adsorption in soil clays which was rapid within the rst 30 min of the 360 min reaction period (fast reaction) and relatively slow after 30 min (slow reaction) demonstrated that the dye adsorption consists of multiple rate processes (Fig. 7a). The amount of dye adsorbed followed the sequence of MB (\100 nm soil clay,
80.77113.13 mmol kg-1) [ MB (\2000 nm soil clay,74.02103.68 mmol kg-1) [ CV (\100 nm soil clay,67.1394.14 mmol kg-1) [ CV (\2000 nm soil clay,24.7538.72 mmol kg-1) (Chen et al. 2011).
The amounts of CV and MB dyes adsorbed on each
adsorbent increased with the increase in temperature of adsorption, suggesting that temperature had a signicant inuence on the adsorption amount of the soil clay, viz \2000 nm (CV, 37.5060.05 and MB, 98.28117.89 mmol kg-1) and \100 nm (CV, 120.88146.29 and MB, 201.39224.12 mmol kg-1) (Fig. 7b). The adsorbed amount was enhanced by using clay of soil nanoparticle size, because the diffusion of CV and MB dye molecules in
Fig. 7 a Equilibrium adsorption times of CV and MB dyes onto the clays (Chen et al. 2011). b Effect of temperature on the adsorption of MB and CV to the clays (Chen et al. 2011)
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the aqueous phase became faster gradually with an increased temperature of adsorption, thus promoting the exchange interaction between the dye molecules and cations on the soil clay surface. Soil nanoclays have greater percentage of dye adsorbed compared with untreated soil clay minerals (\2000 nm) because of the increased surface area and greater pore volume. The maximum amount of
CV and MB adsorbed on soil nanoclays are about two to three times higher than those of soil clays (\2000 nm)
(Chen et al. 2011).
Ghassoul
Elasss group observed that the pH affected the adsorption capacities very slightly in the removal of MB from aqueous solution using ghassoul over a pH range of 311, so no initial pH adjustment on the dye solutions was made for subsequent studies because the pH of freshly prepared dye solution was about 4.55. Temperature change had almost no effect on the adsorption capacity of MB as reected in the adsorption isotherms at different temperatures. The equilibrium adsorption of MB increased with increase in initial dye concentration, thus showing how the adsorption process depended on the initial concentration. A strong afnity of the dye molecules for the surface sites on ghassoul was indicated by the initial steeply rising part (rst 30 min) of the adsorption isotherms. The extent of adsorption reached a limiting value around 300 mg g-1
(Elass et al. 2010).
The MB adsorption increased with increase in contact time when the initial concentration of the MB solution was varied from 100 to 600 mg L-1 (Fig. 8). The high afnity between the adsorbent and the adsorbate was indicated by the fast adsorption process with about 9099 % MB molecules adsorbed on ghassoul within the rst 1020 min. However, the amount of dye adsorbed reached equilibrium in 90 min. Pseudo-second-order equation provided the best correlation for the experimental data, indicating that chemisorption was the adsorption process. Ghassoul was an excellent adsorbent for MB removal at a fast pace, indicating that the adsorption was a surface phenomenon and that the surfaces were readily accessible to the ions in solution (Elass et al. 2010).
Open burnt clay
The effect of contact time, initial dye concentrations of 4080 mg L-1 and initial pH of 3 of CR from aqueous solution using open burnt clay as an adsorbent showed that the dye removal was rapid in the initial stage of contact time and gradually decreased with time until equilibrium was reached in approximately 200 min during a 500 min reaction time (Fig. 9). The rapid removal of dye molecules
in the initial stages of contact time and gradual decrease until equilibrium suggested the formation of monolayer coverage of dye molecules on the outer surface of the adsorbent and pore diffusion onto the inner surface of the adsorbent particles through the lm due to continuous agitation maintained during the experiments (Mumin et al. 2007).
Increasing pH of dye solution from 2 to 12 led to a decreased percentage dye removal from 94 % to 2 % due to aqua-complex formation and subsequent acidbase dissociation at the solidsolution interface, since the dye removal percentage was higher in acidic media. The increasing adsorbent dose of open burnt clay from 0.5 to 3 g (for initial dye concentration 50 mg L-1, solution volume 200 mL and at a pH = 3) resulted in increased removal efciency of the CR adsorbed. The number of available adsorption sites increased with increase in adsorbent dose, leading to increase in removal efciency due to the aggregation/agglomeration of adsorbent particles at higher concentration; thus a decrease in the total surface area of soil particles available for CR adsorption and an increase in diffusional path length were observed (Al-Degs et al. 2000). Particle interaction as a result of high sorbate concentration may also desorb some of the adsorbate which is only loosely and reversibly bonded to the surface. The percentage removal of CR by open burnt clay (94 %) showed comparable results with that of activated charcoal (almost 100 %). However, the high cost, disposal and regeneration problems of activated charcoal made the potentiality of open burnt clay for the effective removal of CR from aqueous solution a very promising alternative. The adsorption capacity of the regenerated burnt clay
Fig. 8 Effect of initial concentration (mg L-1) on the adsorption of MB onto ghassoul (Elass et al. 2010)
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Fig. 9 Adsorption kinetics of Congo Red onto open burnt clay (Mumin et al. 2007)
showed 98 % recovery of the adsorption efciency of the initial virgin adsorbent which decreased by only 1.1 % (Mumin et al. 2007).
Moroccan clay
The adsorption of MG dye onto raw Moroccan clay in batch and dynamic system showed that the adsorption efciency increased as the amount of clay increased due to the increased surface area, with an optimum clay dosage of 40 mg (of clay) per 100 mL. Equilibrium for the MGraw clay system was reached at approximately 25 min of agitation. Increase in initial dye concentration resulted in an increased adsorption capacity, suggesting that the initial dye concentration played an important role in the adsorption capacity of the dye. Decreased breakthrough and exhaustion time at higher initial concentration may be due to the rapid exhaustion of the sorption sites; thus, the diffusion process was concentration dependent. The dye concentration increased with increasing dye loading rate and driving force for the mass transfer decreased in the adsorption zone length, leading to a net effect of appreciable increase in adsorption capacity (Bennani-Karim et al. 2011).
The breakthrough point decreased with decrease in bed height, and increase in bed height increased the breakthrough time; thus for the same inuent MG concentration and xed bed conditions, increased bed height resulted in longer distance for the mass transfer zone to reach the exit and therefore an increase in the breakthrough time. Also, the saturation of the bed was faster at higher MG concentration (Fig. 10). Higher MG uptake was observed at higher bed heights due to the increased specic surface of the crude clay which provided more xation binding sites for the dye to adsorb. The increased adsorbent mass in a
higher bed provided greater service area, which led to increased volume of the solution treated. The possibility of using xed bed of mixed sandclay in the separation of dyes from water revealed that the continuous adsorption system represented by the breakthrough curve was dependent on the initial dye concentration and adsorbent bed height as Moroccan clay showed an interesting capacity of separating MG from water (Bennani-Karim et al. 2011).
The removal of basic red 46 (BR46) dye from aqueous solution by adsorption onto Moroccan clay investigated by Bennani-Karims group revealed that adsorption reached 95 % of the total capacity in 20 min. The uptake of the dye increased by the amount of clay added, and the maximum dye removal was achieved with 40 mg. The number of adsorption sites increased as the adsorbent mass increased, due to the increase in the adsorbent surface area and availability of more adsorption sites. However, further
Fig. 10 Breakthrough curves for MG adsorption on crude clay at different bed heights (initial dye concentration = 260 mg L-1, ow
rate = 4 mL min-1, temperature = 25 1 C) (Bennani-Karim et al. 2011)
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increase in the amount of the adsorbent did not affect the uptake capacity signicantly. Also, increase in initial dye concentration led to an increase in the adsorption capacity, indicating that initial dye concentration played an important role in the adsorption capacity of the dye. Moreover, the initial rate of adsorption was greater for higher initial dye concentration, because the resistance to the dye uptake decreased as the mass transfer driving force increased. The pHpzc (pH at point of zero charge) for the crude clay was9.5 and the adsorption capacity of BR46 onto increased signicantly from pH 9.5 to 12, indicating that the charge sign on the surface of the clay remained negative in a wide pH range (9.512), i.e. in basic solution, the negatively charged clay surface favoured BR46 adsorption. Therefore, the amount of BR46 adsorbed on the clay decreased with the decrease in pH, attributed to the electrostatic repulsion between the positively charged surface and the positively charged dye molecules at pH below 9.5. Also, the lower adsorption of BR46 at acidic pH may be due to the presence of excess H? ions competing with dye cations for the adsorption sites (Bennani-Karim, et al. 2009).
The negative values of DGads showed that the adsorption of basic red 46 (BR46) onto clay was spontaneous, indicating that the process was exothermic in nature. The positive value of DSads showed increased randomness at the solidsolution interface during the adsorption of dye onto clay. The DGads value of \4.7 kcal mol-1 suggested that the process was controlled by physisorption (Bennani-
Karim et al. 2009).
Red mud
Red mud has been used for the removal of different dyes from water and wastewater. Table 4 reveals the adsorption capacity of raw and activated red mud (ARM) for the removal of different dyes in water. Gupta and his group utilized red mud for the removal of Rhodamine B, FG and MB dyes from wastewater. The percentage removal of Rhodamine B, FG and MB with red mud was 92.5, 94.0 and 75.0, while the optimum pH values for their removal were 1.0, 7.0 and 8.0, respectively. Decrease in the adsorption of these dyes in the presence of different
concentrations of cationic and anionic surfactants, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and manoxol 1B, was observed. The removal of about 9597 % of Rhodamine B, FG and MB was achieved at a ow rate of0.5 mL min-1, but the removal decreased with increase in ow rate during column operations. The column capacity was higher than the adsorption capacity of batch experiments, due to a large concentration gradient which was continuously present at the interface zones as the dye-containing sample passed through the column. However, the concentration gradient decreased with time in batch experiments. Desorption of Rhodamine B, FG and MB with some eluents (methanol, ethanol, acetone, sodium hydroxide, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, etc.) showed that the desorption of dyes occurred easily with acetone (Bhatnagar et al. 2011; Gupta et al. 2004).
Waste red mud recycled for the adsorption of CR from aqueous solution showed an adsorption capacity of4.05 mg g-1. Adsorption was found to be nearly quantitative at pH 2.0. The effect of pH and desorption studies suggested that mainly ion exchange was the mechanism of adsorption (Bhatnagar et al. 2011; Namasivayam and Arasi 1997). The ability of waste red mud to remove Procion orange dye at different initial dye concentrations, agitation time, adsorbent dosage and pH revealed that the percent removal decreased from 82 to 0 on increasing the initial pH of the solution from 2.0 to 11.0, due to the aqua-complex formation and subsequent acidbase dissociation at the solidsolution interface (Namasivayam et al. 2002). However, desorption studies showed that maximum desorption occurred at a pH of 11 (Bhatnagar et al. 2011; Namasivayam et al. 2002). The Langmuir adsorption capacity of red mud used for the removal of Acid Violet dye from wastewater was 1.37 mg g-1. Quantitative dye removal occurred at pH 4.1 and the desorption studies showed that ion exchange was the main mechanism involved in the sorption process (Bhatnagar et al. 2011; Namasivayam et al. 2001).
Batch adsorption experiments for the removal of CR dye from water using HCl ARM revealed that the pH of the dye solution strongly affected the chemistry of both the dye molecules and the ARM in aqueous solution with effective
Table 4 Adsorption capacity of red mud for the removal of different dyes from water (Bhatnagar et al. 2011)
Adsorbent Adsorbate Amount adsorbed Reference
Red mud Rhodamine B (1.011.16) 9 10-5 mol g-1 Gupta et al. (2004)
Red mud Fast Green (7.259.35) 9 10-6 mol g-1 Gupta et al. (2004)
Red mud Methylene Blue (4.355.23) 9 10-5 mol g-1 Gupta et al. (2004)
Red mud Congo Red 4.05 mg g-1 Namasivayam and Arasi (1997)
Red mud Acid Violet 1.37 mg g-1 Namasivayam et al. (2001)
Acid-activated red mud Congo Red 7.08 mg g-1 Tor and Cengeloglu (2006)
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pH of 7.0 for adsorption (Tor and Cengeloglu 2006). Equilibrium was achieved in 90 min and the maximum monolayer sorption capacity for the adsorption of CR by ARM was 7.08 mg g-1 (Bhatnagar et al. 2011; Tor and Cengeloglu 2006). Fly ash and red mud have been employed as adsorbents for the removal of MB dye from aqueous solution. Heat treatment (800 C for overnight)
and chemical treatment (1 N HNO3 solution for 24 h) have also been applied to the as-received y ash and red mud samples (Wang et al. 2005). Heat treatment reduced the adsorption capacity for both y ash and red mud, but acid treatment by HNO3 induced a different effect on y ash and red mud, which resulted in increased adsorption capacity of y ash and decreased adsorption capacity of red mud. Lower adsorption capacity of heat-treated red mud was due to the decomposition of some organics and hydroxyl groups at high temperature, which were the main effective sites for adsorption. On the other hand, acid treatment dissolved the minerals in carbon and thus increased the pore volume and surface area of the y ash sample, leading to increased adsorption. However, acid treatment for red mud neutralized the hydroxide ions on the basic surface, thus favouring adsorption of the basic dye (Bhatnagar et al. 2011; Wang et al. 2005).
Raw clay
Surface properties and adsorption mechanism of anionic Reactive Red 120 (RR120) dye onto raw clay was investigated by Errais group. The kinetics of the RR120 adsorption on the four clays [Fouchana clay, smectite (SWy-1), kaolinite (KGa-2) and illite (IMt-2)] determined in the same operating conditions showed rapid dye removal in the initial stages of contact time and reached equilibrium after 20 min for Fouchana and KGa-2, and after 60 min for SWy-1 and IMt-2 during a 180 min reaction time. The rapid adsorption during the rst 20 min for KGa-2 and Fouchana clay was due to the abundant availability of active sites on the clay surface; but with the gradual occupancy of these sites, the adsorption became less efcient. By contrast, adsorption of the RR120 dye on SWy-1 and IMt-2 was less rapid and completed in about 1 h, indicating that for the same initial mass of clay and dye concentration, the adsorption rate was higher for KGa-2 and Fouchana clay (*98 %) than for SWy-1 (*4 %) and
IMt-2 (*3 %) (Errais 2011). At the chosen experimental conditions, KGa-2, with the lowest CEC, possessed the highest adsorption rate and yield. The adsorption capacity of SWy-1 was low compared with that of KGa-2 or Fouchana clay (which contains 30 % kaolinite), although it has high exchange capacity. Thus, the exchange phenomena between the layers were not the main processes of adsorption that was to be expected considering the negative
surface charge of the clay and the anionic nature of the dye molecules; they may, however, be responsible for retention of dye molecules in the case of SWy-1 (Errais et al. 2012).
All DHads values for the four clays were negative, indicating that the process was exothermic in nature. The negative values of DGads for Fouchana clay and KGa-2 showed the spontaneous adsorption of RR 120 dye on these adsorbents, while the positive DGads values for SWy-1 and
IMt-2 clays showed that the adsorption process was not spontaneous. Moreover, DGads values increased with temperature increase, indicating that the adsorption process on
Fouchana and KGa-2 was thermodynamically feasible at room temperature, but less at higher temperatures suggesting that adsorption occurred through electrostatic processes. The difference in adsorption capacity of the clays might thus be related to the surface characteristics and chemical nature. The potentiometric titration (Fig. 11) of RR120 in aqueous solution showed that four predominant species co-existed between the pH values 2 and 12, namely two phenolic OH groups adjacent to azo groups (pKa = 11.54 and 9.38) and two de-protonated diaminochlorotriazine groups (pKa = 4.4 and 2) (Laera
et al. 2011). The sulphonic acid groups were under anionic form at pH 2 (Jhimli et al. 2010), indicating that the RR120 dye was still in anionic form with six negatives sites under acidic pH (\4), but also with two positive sites. At pH \ 4, the different measurements showed that (i) the charge of the dye was negative, but with positive charges at the chlorotriazine groups and (ii) the studied clay minerals were protonated at the sheet edges with the presence of positive charges; so at these low pH conditions, there was a combined effect on both the protonated clay surface and anionic dye molecules which favoured the adsorption of the dye. However, the solution pH was always higher than 4, but slightly acidic (55.7) for experiments with Fouchana and KGa-2 and basic (99.3) for the experiments with SWy-1 and IMt-2. This means that protonation of Fouchana and KGa-2 particle edges contributed only partly to the adsorption of the dye, whereas the basic pH conditions of SWy-1 and IMt-2 did not allow major dye adsorption on the clay edges (Errais et al. 2012).
The specic surface values of the studied clays decreased after adsorption, indicating that the surface access to adsorption decreased. Observations by electron microscopy showed particle aggregates covered by a compact lm and a porosity that was no longer visible, especially in the Fouchana clay and SWy-1. In this the dye molecules completely lled the spaces between aggregates, thereby reducing the specic surface area. However, there was a coating of particles without complete lling of porosity in KGa-2, which would have induced an increase in particle size, thus decreasing the surface/volume ratio and surface area (Velde 1995). However, the increase in
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the volume of small size pores (\5 nm) of Fouchana clay after adsorption and decrease in the volume of larger pores (5-14 nm) suggested a more extensive lling by dye in larger pores contrary to small pores and thus an increase in the number and volume of small pores. There was a decrease in volume in both pore sizes in KGa-2, suggesting that dye adsorption occurred more uniformly in small as well as larger pores, which is consistent with electron microscopy observations (Errais et al. 2012).
CEC values before adsorption were very low for KGa-2 compared to those of SWy-1 and Fouchana clay. Unlike specic surface values, the CEC values increased signicantly after adsorption of the dye, especially for KGa-2 indicating that there was creation of additional negatively charged sites, which could adsorb cations (i.e. the multiple sulphonate groups of the dye molecules). All of the sulphonate groups did not interact with the clay; thus the remaining free groups provided additional adsorption sites for positively charged ions. The amount of exchangeable aluminium in Fouchana and KGa-2 clays was higher compared to Swy-1, both before and after dye adsorption because the presence of exchangeable aluminium was a factor favouring the adsorption of organic anions (Yariv 2002). The metal cations adsorbed on edge sites contributed to the positive net surface charge and formed bridges between the clay particles and organic anions due to the effectiveness of anionic dye adsorption by kaolinite and Fouchana clay (Errais et al. 2012).
All the clay suspensions were stable at zeta potential values below -25 except for IMt-2. The high zeta potential absolute values and the low pH of Fouchana clay and KGa-2 indicated a good particle dispersion and front edge aggregation type where porosity was open and accessible to anionic dyes (Tombcz and Szekeres 2006; Zbik et al. 2008; Mietta et al. 2009). The high zeta potential absolute value and basic pH of SWy-1 contributed to dispersion of particles and less dense aggregation (Lagaly and Ziesmer 2003). After adsorption of dye and suspension in distilled water, zeta potential decreased (in absolute value) indicating a tendency towards occulation. There was still compression of the double layer and charge neutralization of the surface by counterions, inducing a decrease in zeta potential (Table 5) due to counterions being adsorbed on the basal surfaces of clay particles or between dye molecules and the adsorbed and closely packed dye molecules preventing the counterions from diffusing in the aqueous solution. The smectite in Fouchana clay played a lesser role in dye adsorption where the main process was related to the presence of exchangeable calcium and dissociated AlOH groups at crystal edges. The role of illite is unimportant compared with that of kaolinite or smectite. Natural untreated clay, as far as it contains a major amount of kaolinite, is an effective material in the adsorption of anionic dye molecules at ambient temperature and with initial pH of the dye solution slightly acidic (Errais et al. 2012).
Fig. 11 Potentiometric titration of RR120 dye aqueous solution and speciation between pH 2 and 12 (half molecule species are represented) (Errais et al. 2012)
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Table 5 Zeta potential of Fouchana clay, smectite SWy-1, kaolinite KGa-2 and illite IMt-2 before and after adsorption (Errais et al. 2012)
n (mv) pH
Before adsorption After adsorption Before adsorption After adsorption
Fouchana clay -38 -31.6 5 5.7
Kaolinite KGa-2 -29.5 -26.8 5.4 5
Smectite Swy-1 -34.5 -32 9.3 9.2
Illite IMt-2 -5.8 -16 9.3 9
Activated clay
Hsu and co-workers investigated the adsorption behaviour of basic dyes [basic red 18 (BR 18); basic red 46 (BR 46); basic yellow 28 (BY 28)] on activated clay. The adsorption rate was about the same regardless of changes in agitation speed above 200 rpm, which was consistent with a previously reported result (Wu et al. 1994) implying that the transfer of solute on the particle surface was not affected by lm thickness. However, pore diffusion turned out to be a major limiting factor, as liquid lm diffusion on the external particle surface was caused mainly by the electrostatic attractive forces between the negatively charged activated clay and the positively charged basic dye molecules. Only a very small amount of clay was present in the 1 g L-1
experiment, indicating random adsorption due to the adsorption site on the activated clay adsorbing the BR 18 molecules. However, the adsorbability diminished as the amount of clay increased, i.e. the amount of dyes adsorbed per unit mass of clay decreased with an increasing amount of clay. The adsorbent surface area was highly dependent on the particle size, which in turn affected the adsorption rate as well as the adsorption capability. The specic surface areas were 147.33, 99.51, 89.87 and 87.68 m2 g-1 for particle sizes of \38, 3863, 6375 and 75106 pm, respectively, among which the group with size\38 pm showed the best result for BR 18. Similar results were also observed for BR 46 and BY 28. The larger the specic surface area, the greater is the adsorption capacity and the rapid is the adsorption rate. The higher the initial dye concentrations, the higher is the adsorbate per unit adsorbent mass. Similar results were also observed for BR 46 and BY 28. At low initial concentration (e.g. less than 110.56 mg L-1),
instantaneous adsorption occurred without signicant lag time (Fig. 12) (Hsu et al. 1997). A summary of adsorption capacities of some clay adsorbents for the removal of different dyes from water are presented in Table 6.
The presence of NaCl (an electrolyte) greatly enhanced the adsorption capability of activated clay as the charge density in the diffusion layer was signicantly increased, which in turn minimized the volume of diffusion layer required to neutralize the surface charge. Sodium cation had a thinning effect on the diffusion layer formed on the
surface of the particles. Although the total net charge did not change, the thickness of the diffusion layer diminished signicantly (Beneeld et al. 1982). Similar results with little discrepancies were obtained for BR 18 and BY 28 due to the differences in the molecular structures of the dyes. The wastewater temperature affected the adsorption rate as well as the adsorption capacity; in some positively and in others negatively. However, lower temperatures facilitated the adsorption of BR 46 with similar results observed for BY 28 and BR 18, although they were not as signicant as for BR 46. The activated clay showed excellent afnity for the basic dyes and the degree of adsorbability depended greatly on the species of basic dyes, temperature and relative concentrations of the adsorbate and the adsorbent. Sodium chloride contained in the wastewater exerted a positive effect on the adsorption (Hsu et al. 1997).
Fig. 12 Effect of initial concentration of dyes on adsorption capacity for BR18. Temperature = 30 C. rpm = 500, pH 3, 0 \ dp -
B 38 lm, activated clay = 2 g L-1, open square Co = 110.56 -mg L-1, Co = 213.53 mg L-1, lled square Co = 326.16 mg L-1, open star Co = 366.76 mg L-1, open diamond Co = 443.29 -mg L-1, open triangle Co = 519.83 mg L-1 (Hsu et al. 1997)
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Table 6 Summary of adsorption capacities of some clay adsorbents for the removal of different dyes from water as discussed in this review
Clay adsorbent Adsorbate % removal Optimum conditions: pH; contact time (min)
References
Bentonite Malachite Green [90 9; 10 Tahir and Naseem (2006) Iraqi bentonite modied clay Fast Green 97 \7; 30 Ehssan et al. (2011)
Iraqi bentonite modied clay Crystal Violet 90 [7; 30 Ehssan et al. (2011) Acid-activated Algerian bentonite Methylene Blue 91.65 10; 5 Bellir et al. (2010)
Natural bentonite, modied by thermal activation Diazo Dye 91.62 \10; 120 Toor and Jin (2012) Natural bentonite, modied acid activation Diazo Dye 92.75 \10; 120 Toor and Jin (2012)
Natural bentonite, modied by combined acid and thermal activation
Diazo Dye 96.65 \10; 120 Toor and Jin (2012)
Ca-bentonite Congo Red 95.92 5; 180 Lian et al. (2009)
Alginate/polyvinyl alcoholkaolin composite Methylene Blue 100 [8; 360 Abd El-Latif et al. (2010) Natural kaolinitic clay Congo Red 84 59; 60 Nwokem et al. (2012)
Burnt kaolinitic clay Congo Red 94 59; 60 Nwokem et al. (2012)
Montmorillonite Malachite Green NS NS; 30 Tahir et al. (2010)
Montmorillonite Fast Green NS NS; 10 Tahir et al. (2010)
Montmorillonitic clay Basic Blue 16 NS 3.6; NS Gunay et al. (2013)
Ghassoul Methylene Blue 9099 4.55; 1020 Elass et al. (2010)
Open burnt clay Congo Red 94 3; 200 Mumin et al. (2007)
Raw Moroccan clay Malachite Green NS NS; 25 Bennani-Karim et al. (2011)
Moroccan clay Basic Red 46 95 9.5; 20 Bennani-Karim et al. (2009) Raw clay (Fouchana clay) Reactive Red 120 NS 55.7; 20 Errais et al. (2012)
Raw clay (smectite) Reactive Red 120 NS 99.3; 60 Errais et al. (2012)
Raw clay (kaolinite) Reactive Red 120 NS 55.7; 20 Errais et al. (2012)
Raw clay (illite) Reactive Red 120 NS 99.3; 60 Errais et al. (2012)
Activated clay Basic Red NS 3; 30 Hsu et al. (1997)
Activated clay Basic Red 46 NS 3; 30 Hsu et al. (1997)
Activated clay Basic Yellow 28 NS 3; 30 Hsu et al. (1997)
NS not stated
TiO2 interlayer-pillared clays
The use of TiO2 interlayer-pillared clays has been widely studied notably for their high efciency/catalytic activity, low cost, long-term stability, regeneration and reuse (Herney-Ramrez and Madeira 2010). Ding et al. reported the adsorption of methyl orange (MO) on hydrophobic TiO2-pillared clay prepared from montmorillonite clay (MC) using acetic acid (MCHA) and HCl solution (MCHCL). The adsorption equilibrium was reached within 20 min at room temperature and the TiO2-pillared MCHA and MCHCL had better adsorption capability to MO than the raw MC. Higher percentage of the starting concentration of MO was adsorbed on MCHA (26.4 %) and MCHCL(25.2 %) as compared to raw MC (10.0 %). The adsorption of dyes and other organics from water is not only inuenced by the specic surface area, but also affected by the hydrophobicity or the polarity of adsorbents. Since water is preferentially adsorbed on the hydrophilic clay matrix, its surface should be hydrophilic. When the clay was modied
with acetic acid and HCl, its surface became more hydrophobic and possessed larger adsorption capacity to organic pollutants (MO). The high cost and the complicated separation process of the titanium catalyst particles from aqueous system hinder the large-scale industrial applications of TiO2-based technology. However, clay has better sedimentation and precipitation properties which can be used in recycling the adsorbent. Recovery studies showed that MCHA (75 % in 60 min and 83 % in 240 min) had better precipitation performance than Degussa P25 TiO2 (3 % in 60 min and 8 % in 240 min)
which is a commonly available commercial TiO2. There was no sedimentation of Degussa P25 TiO2 within the experiment time (240 min); thus, the MCHA has much higher recovery efciency than Degussa P25 TiO2, suggesting that the former can be more suitable in wastewater treatment (Ding et al. 2008).
Photodegradation and photocatalysis of organic pollutants including dyes using TiO2 interlayer-pillared clays has been subject to numerous studies in the last decades.
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Yang et al. investigated the time-dependent concentration variation of MO in aqueous solution suspended in TiO2-
pillared clays under UV irradiation (l [ 290 nm) for 120 min. Excellent photocatalytic activities were observed as the concentration of MO with the TiO2-pillared clay catalysts decreased drastically upon increasing the UV light irradiation time, whereas no photocatalytic degradation of MO was observed without the photocatalyst within the irradiation time. Larger specic surface area catalysts showed higher activity, thus conrming the importance of nanoporosity in the catalysts. The authors noted that the photocatalytic activity of TK-500 (with less transparent clay support; Kunipia-G) was found to be considerably lower than that of TM-500 (with transparent clay support; Na-mica), even though TK-500 has signicantly higher TiO2 content (56.9 wt%) and specic surface area (314 m2 g-1) than TM-500 (34.0 wt% and 242 m2 g-1). They proposed that such unusual photocatalytic property of the TiO2-pillared clays with different textural parameters was due to the difference in the optical transparency of the host clay layers. These results indicated that the photocatalytic activities of TiO2-pillared clays was signicantly affected by the optical transparency of host clay lattice, as well as their specic surface areas (Yang et al. 2015).
The photocatalytic performances of the TiO2-pillared montmorillonite (Mt) on MB under UV light reported by
Chen and co-workers showed that in the absence of the photocatalyst, the photolysis of MB is only 8 %. The degradation efciency of TiO2 Degusa P-25 (46 %) was much lower than the TiPx-Mt-y samples [x: amount of poly(ethylene oxide) (POP); 13 g added and y: calcination temperature between 300 and 900 C]. However, the authors observed that the photocatalytic activity of TiPx-Mt-500 was higher than that of Ti-Mt-500 (without POP) with maximum removal efciency of MB for TiP1.5-Mt-500 (83 %) within 90 min, indicating that the photocatalytic activities of the TiO2-pillared montmorillonite (Mt)
is not a function of the Ti loading of the samples, but a function of the contact between the catalyst and the dye to be degraded. Increase in calcination temperature decreased the photocatalytic activities of TiP2-Mt-y, probably due to the collapse of some pores and thus decreasing the specic surface area and pore volume, as larger specic surface areas and large pore volumes are required for adsorbents/catalysts for removing organic compounds from wastewater. Photocatalytic performance also strongly depended on the crystallinity and grain size of the samples, as observed in TiP2-Mt-400 with higher photocatalytic activity (98 %) than TiP2-Mt-200 (Chen et al. 2012b).
Moroccan palygorskite bres were used in the photo-catalytic degradation of Orange G (OG) pollutant from wastewater. The TiO2-supported palygorskite sample annealed in air at 600 C for 1 h (CTA?-Pal-Ti-600-1)
showed the highest photocatalytic activity (89 %) towards the degradation of OG compared to nanocomposite samples prepared under different conditions as well as pure TiO2 powders obtained from the xerogel route or commercially available Degussa P25. The best photocatalytic activity between 500 and 600 C was observed with average crystallite size of anatase at 8 nm. The increased size of anatase crystallite led to decreased photocatalytic activity above this temperature range. However, increased annealing temperature reduced the activity, although they were still active at 900 C (25 % of OG removed) probably due to the good thermal stability and structural changes of anatase on increasing temperature and annealing time. The initial amount of OG disappeared in approximately 90 min with the nanocomposite materials annealed at 500 C and there was better efciency at 600 C, below which lower efciencies (50 % of the initial dye amount was degraded in 150 min) were observed at higher temperatures thus exhibiting important photocatalytic activity. This was attributed to the formation of anatase nanoparticles as supported by powder X-ray diffraction studies and the crystallization of the less active rutile phase at high temperatures. In comparison with commercial Degussa P25 and TiO2 obtained by the xerogel route, the photocatalytic activity of TiO2-supported palygorskite nanocomposites (CTA?-Pal-Ti-600-1 sample) showed twice higher activity with small size and better dispersion of TiO2 nanoparticles immobilized on the palygorskite bres, which prevented agglomeration and maintained high specic surface area, thus accounting for the good efciency (Bouna et al. 2011).
Photodegradation of CR using TiO2-pillared Romanian clay under UV irradiation was studied by Dvininovs group. The combination of the adsorptive capacity of the Romanian clay and the ability of TiO2 to efciently photooxidize CR in aqueous solution was utilized at room temperature and pH 4 with the maximum dye absorption observed at pH 1 due to dye coagulation, thus using a higher pH to avoid this process. Although maximum CR absorption has been reported in the basic environment (pH10), high amounts of adsorbents are required to get a 50 % removal. UV irradiation of the CR solution in the absence of photocatalyst showed that 20 % of the dye was removed by photolysis, while approximately 10 % of the dye was adsorbed by the composite in the dark. However, about 40 % of the dye was removed in 1 h by photocatalysis, which is relatively low in efciency. TiO2-pillared
Romanian clay samples prepared using the direct method (TiVC) and indirect method (TiVCS1 and TiVCS2) showed increased CR removal efciency from 25.4 % (TiVC) to 42.7 % (TiVCS1) and 90 % (TiVCS2) using identical experimental conditions after only 10 min, while all the CR in the solution was removed by TiVCS2 after 30 min, showing the highest efciency for the dye
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oxidation. Thus, the photocatalytic activity of the pillared clays was not a function of Ti loading of the samples, but a function of the contact between catalyst and the dye to be degraded, TiO2 pillar size and photoactive species present in the interlayer space (Dvininov et al. 2009).
Challenges and future prospects
The literatures reviewed so far revealed that there was need for more detailed studies in dye removal processes and improvements in the preparation and utilization of clay adsorbents. Several issues need more attention in future studies of clay materials as adsorbents for dyes. Amongst these are enhancement of sorption capacity through modication and mechanistic modelling to correctly understand the sorption mechanisms. The interaction between adsorbates and the adsorbents must be investigated in more detail to establish the relationships and roles of functional groups in the dye adsorption process. Critical investigation is needed in studying the adsorptive properties and the molecular structure/surface group of the adsorbents, as this will be helpful in the development of micro/meso porosity. Extensive research must be conducted to bring to limelight the expansive laboratory efforts to design and carry out some pilot-scale studies to check the feasibility of these clay adsorbents at the industrial level.
The difculty in separating adsorbateadsorbent mixture after adsorption limits the practical application of clay materials as adsorbents. A lot of researches are in progress to explore new and modied methods that can not only separate clay materials from water effectively, but also improve the dye removal rate. This quest should also be tailored towards getting raw/modied clay materials with short contact time, as this will make it easier to use clay as adsorbents industrially. In addition, the clay minerals are in nanometre scale, so they have large specic surface area that greatly favours adsorption. However, this advantage has not been brought to the limelight because of the difculties in the dispersion or separation procedures.
The processes of regeneration and reuse of these clay materials are of high interest; thus, extensive research is needed to nd better physical methods for regeneration. Regeneration of the adsorbent by desorption is not feasible; therefore, cost-effective and feasible regeneration methods must be developed to make use of these clay materials with real industrial dye efuents economically viable. The regeneration of used clay adsorbents employing the conventional methods for regeneration of spent adsorbent, i.e. thermal treatment and acid and base treatment, in a controlled atmosphere should minimize drastically the oxidation of the adsorbent particles. Mechanistic details of the regeneration and reuse of TiO2 interlayer-pillared clays
should be explored to bring the science to an industrial scale level. Since a large number of clay materials are obtained locally, researchers utilizing clay materials for dye removal can work and promote the mantra think globally, act locally.
Conclusion
From the various studies so far examined, it is evident that different types of clay have shown high efciencies for dye removal, with activated/modied clays showing higher adsorption capacities than raw clays. The sorption properties of clays as adsorbent for the removal of diverse type of dyes from water and wastewater have been reviewed based on a substantial number of relevant published articles considering various process parameters. The effect of temperature, initial dye concentration, contact time, adsorbent dosage, pH, and kinetic and thermodynamic parameters inuencing the sorption processes has been discussed in detail. The development of highly efcient clay adsorbents (especially the activated/modied forms) is essential for industrial applications. Potential ways of improving the performance of clay adsorbents have also been suggested. Additional research is also needed to gain a better understanding of the mechanism of dye adsorption on activated clays and TiO2 interlayer-pillared clays, especially about surface morphology after modication/activation, as the information available on the possible mechanism of dye sorption by clay materials needs further explanation.
Acknowledgments The corresponding author acknowledges the support obtained from the Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) in the form of a grant: Research Grant number: 11-249 RG/CHE/AF/ AC_1_UNESCO FR: 3240262674.
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Increasing amount of dyes in the ecosystem particularly in wastewater has propelled the search for more efficient low-cost adsorbents. The effective use of the sorption properties (high surface area and surface chemistry, lack of toxicity and potential for ion exchange) of different clays as adsorbents for the removal of different type of dyes (basic, acidic, reactive) from water and wastewater as potential alternatives to activated carbons has recently received widespread attention because of the environmental-friendly nature of clay materials. Insights into the efficiencies of raw and modified/activated clay adsorbents and ways of improving their efficiencies to obtain better results are discussed. Acid-modified clay resulted in higher rate of dye adsorption and an increased surface area and porosity (49.05 mm2 and 53.4 %). Base-modified clay has lower adsorption capacities, while ZnCl2-modified clay had the least rate of adsorption with a surface area of 44.3 mm2 and porosity of 43.4 %. This review also explores the grey areas of the adsorption properties of the raw clays and the improved performance of activated/modified clay materials with particular reference to the effects of pH, temperature, initial dye concentration and adsorbent dosage on the adsorption capacities of the clays. Various challenges encountered in using clay materials are highlighted and a number of future prospects for the adsorbents are proposed.
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