Author(s)

Erika Janneth Montes-Alba¹, Gabriel de Jesús Camargo-Vargas², Rafael Nikolay Agudelo-Valencia², Germán Eduardo Dévora-Isiordia^3*

¹Environmental Engineering, Universidad Libre, Bogotá, Colombia.
²Universidad Libre (Bogotá Branch), Bogotá, Colombia.
³Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Obregón, México.

The aim of this work was to evaluate the sunflower stalk (SS) as an adsorbent in the removal of red acid 114 (AR 114) and basic blue 3 (BB 3) in aqueous solutions, without any physicochemical treatment, where temperature and concentration were the studied variables. The research was developed by using the batch processing mode; the contact time was one hour, with constant agitation of 200 rpm and pH of 7000 ± 0.050, using a central composite design. The adsorbent was characterized through BET, SEM, acid sites and basic sites, charging point, and infrared. The results indicated that the sunflower stalk was a viable and economical alternative for the removal of water that had been contaminated by dyes, showing a better performance for the AR 114 dye, reaching a 71.96% of removal with respect to the initial load. In addition, the EPI Web software was used to model the environmental performance of colorants.

Adsorption, Textile Dyes, Low Cost Adsorbents, SEM, BET, EPI Web

Montes-Alba, E. , Camargo-Vargas, G. , Agudelo-Valencia, R. and Dévora-Isiordia, G. (2019) Adsorption Study of Acid Red 114 and Basic Blue 3 on Sunflower Stalk. Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 11, 68-81. doi: 10.4236/jwarp.2019.111005.