The removal of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) from waste water was studied by three activated carbon samples (AP21, AZ21 and AN13) prepared from date palm pits (DP) as a precursor and phosphoric acid, zinc chloride and sodium hydroxide as activating agents. Different tech...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2017/33073
Aim: To study the removal of vat yellow 4 from wastewater on activated carbon produced from Mucuna pruriens seed shells (MPS). Methodology: The seed sample was activated using two methods and carbonized at 500°C for 2 hours to produce two different adsorbents. The physicochemical...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOCS/2016/30210
In this study, the thermodynamic parameters and adsorption kinetics of methylene blue (MB) onto Turkish green clay (TGC) from Gurpinar in Van, Turkey were investigated in aqueous solution through batch adsorption experiment. Turkish green clay was used in this study for the first...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2016/30677
In this study, the thermodynamic parameters and adsorption kinetic of catalase onto diatomite were investigated in aqueous solution for determining the effect of contact time, stirring speed, initial enzyme concentration, initial concentration of sodium phosphate buffer, temperat...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOCS/2016/30678
We report herein the simulation of Tricarbonyl (1-4-η-5-exo-N-X,X-dimethyl pyridino-cyclohexa-1,3-diene) iron complexes that were carried out on the theoretical ground state geometries, electronic, thermodynamic properties and vibrational frequencies using semi empirical PM6 met...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/27275
The adsorption of resorcinol from aqueous solutions onto activated carbon was studied. The specific surface area and point of zero charge of activated carbon were determined. Adsorption experiments were carried out in a batch process and various experimental parameters such as ag...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/27637
This investigation was concern to study the removal of methylene blue pollutants from aqueous solution using nano ZnO synthesized from raw materials of zinc oxide. The equilibrium adsorption data were analyzed using adsorption models of Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin. The thermo...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2016/25000
Aim: To prepare Activated carbon (AC) from local agro-forestry wastes, and apply it in dye adsorption in order to assess its efficiency in wastewater treatment. Study Design: Laboratory analysis for various parameters. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Chemical Engineeri...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/19229
In the present days of modern cosmology it is assumed that the main ingredient to cosmic energy presently is vacuum energy with an energy density ∈vac that is constant over the cosmic evolution. In this paper here we show, however, that this assumption of constant vacuum energy d...
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Research Article10.9734/PSIJ/2015/17812
The adsorption characteristics of ternary dye system (TDS), comprising of a mixture of congo red, methyl orange and methylene blue, on formaldehyde-treated melon husk (FMH) were investigated with respect to the changes in initial pH of TDS, contact time, and initial TDS concentra...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/16748
Isothermal, kinetics and thermodynamics studies of Cr (VI) from simulated solution onto modified activated carbon from endocarp of Canarium schweinfurthii (African Elemi) was studied. The effect of process parameters such as, contact time, pH, adsorbent dosage, initial metal ion...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/14823
This work was carried out in order to study the possibility of using pinecones as inexpensive sorbent material for the removal of copper ions in solution. The experiment was carried out in the Department of Chemistry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Batch adsorp...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/11115
Adsorption of Fe3+/Fe2+ from a polluted shallow well water onto a palm kernel shell activated carbon (PKSAC) has been studied. Batch experiment was adopted to study the Removal efficiency of Fe3+/Fe2+ on varying contact time, temperature, adsorbent loading and concentrations. Eq...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2014/7149
Aims: The aim of this study is to determine thermodynamic energies of the solvation of lead nitrate in mixed DMF-H2O solvents at 301.15 K. The Gibbs free energies as a very important thermodynamic property were evaluated for Pb(NO3)2 in mixed dimethylformamide DMF-H2O solvents at...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2013/4343
We present a new class of the black hole solutions of Einstein-Maxwell-Yang-Mills theory. These solutions have both U(1) charge and Yang-Mills hair. We also investigate the thermodynamic properties.