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Sorption kinetics of Zn (II) ion by thermally treated rice husk


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Ong, Keat Khim and Ahmad Tarmizi, Ahmad Farhan and Wan Yunus, Wan Md. Zin and Kashim, Mohd. Safidin and Fitrianto, Anwar and Hussin, Abdul Ghapor and Mohd Azmi, Ahmad Farid (2014) Sorption kinetics of Zn (II) ion by thermally treated rice husk. In: International Conference on Mathematics, Engineering and Industrial Applications 2014 (ICoMEIA 2014), 28-30 May 2014, Penang, Malaysia. (pp. 1-6).

Abstract

Agricultural wastes such as orange peels, tea leave waste, rice husk and corn cobs have been widely studied as sorbents for heavy metal ion removal from various wastewaters. In order to understand their sorption mechanism, the adsorption kinetics is studied. This report describes the kinetics study of a thermally treated rice husk to adsorb Zn (II) ion from an aqueous solution. The adsorbent was obtained by heating the rice husk in a furnace at 500°C for two hours. Increase the contact period improved percentage of the removal of Zn (II) ion until an equilibrium was reached. The data obtained showed that the adsorption of Zn (II) ion by thermally treated rice husk obeyed pseudo-second order kinetics model, which is in agreement with chemisorption as the rate limiting mechanism.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Science
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4915735
Publisher: AIP Publishing LLC
Keywords: Adsorption kinetics; Rice husk; Thermally treated; Zinc (II) ion
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 24 Oct 2017 07:56
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2017 07:56
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57620
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