Issue
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering,
Vol.28, No.4, 1035-1041, 2011
Removal of melanoidin from molasses spent wash using fly ash-clay adsorbents
Removal of melanoidin pigment from molasses spent wash was investigated using a new adsorbent. Solid adsorbents were fabricated from charcoal fly ash and clay. The effect of various molasses concentration (6 to 12 g/l) on removal efficiency was studied. The obtained results revealed that maximum removal efficiency of 82% was achieved at the molasses concentration of 6 g/l and contact time of 7 h. The saturated porous adsorbents were regenerated and reused to conduct similar experiments. The achieved data showed that more than 90% of the capacity of the fresh adsorbent was recovered after regeneration. Various adsorption isotherms of Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin and Harkins-Jura were applied to interpret the obtained experimental data. The obtained results revealed that the sorption data were well described by the Harkins-Jura model. Also, various kinetic models of pseudo-first order, pseudo-second order, Elovich and intra-particle diffusion were used to predict the characteristic parameters which are useful in process design. It was concluded that the best fit was obtained with pseudo-second order kinetic model at low molasses concentrations.
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