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A highly efficient technique to simultaneously remove acidic and basic dyes using magnetic ion-exchange microbeads.

Changchen Lu¹, Jiaojiao Yang¹, Asghar Khan¹

¹School of Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China; Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Jiangsu Engineering Lab of Water and Soil Eco-remediation, Nanjing, 210023, China.

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Magnetic microbeads effectively remove crystal violet and acid green 9 dyes. Magnetic anion-exchange microbeads (MAM) and magnetic cation-exchange microbeads (MCM) show high efficiency and reusability for dye removal.

Keywords:

Acidic dye Basic dye Magnetic microbeads Regeneration Synergistic removal

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Chemistry

Background:

Wastewater treatment requires efficient removal of persistent organic pollutants like dyes.
Magnetic ion-exchange microbeads offer a promising solution due to their magnetic separability and tunable surface chemistry.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the combined use of magnetic anion-exchange microbeads (MAM) and magnetic cation-exchange microbeads (MCM) for removing crystal violet (CV) and acid green 9 (AG9) dyes.
To analyze the adsorption kinetics and isotherms for individual and mixed dye solutions.

Main Methods:

Batch adsorption experiments were conducted using MAM and MCM.
Adsorption kinetics were modeled using pseudo-first-order, pseudo-second-order, Elovich, and intra-particle diffusion models.
Adsorption isotherms were analyzed using the Langmuir model.

Main Results:

MCM showed high affinity for CV (basic dye), while MAM demonstrated superior affinity for AG9 (acidic dye).
The combination of MCM and MAM efficiently removed both dyes from mixed solutions.
Pseudo-second-order kinetics and Langmuir isotherms best described the adsorption process for CV, suggesting monolayer adsorption.
AG9 adsorption onto MAM indicated multilayered adsorption on heterogeneous surfaces.
Dye adsorption capacity decreased with increasing salt concentration, with a slight increase at high concentrations due to the salting-out effect.

Conclusions:

MCM and MAM are effective and reusable materials for removing both basic and acidic dyes from aqueous solutions.
The magnetic properties of the microbeads facilitate easy separation and reuse, highlighting their potential for practical wastewater treatment applications.