Study on methylene blue dye removal by eco-friendly adsorbents produced from coastal plant casuarina equaisetifolia seeds
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2016
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Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
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Water is one of the precious sources to all living things and its consumption increases
as human population increases. However, water becomes polluted by anthropogenic
influences in domestic, agriculture, commercial and industrial sectors especially in
batik industry which consumes a large amount of water. The high color of water
discharge from batik effluent can reduce the light penetration to aquatic life. Color is
also most notorious characteristics of dye wastewater and has a strong negative impact
to aquatic life. Methylene Blue (MB) is a common pollutant material in textile
wastewater and frequently used in textile industries especially. Therefore, this study
was conducted to examine the potential of C. equisetifo/ia seeds treated p-toluene
sulfonic acid monohydrate as an eco-friendly adsorbent to remove the color of MB by
adsorption process.
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Nor Atiera Nabila Ismail, LP 20 PPKK 1 2016