A PROJECT REPORT ON

PREPARATION OF ADSORBENT FROM WASTE CORNCOB FOR

APPLICATION IN DYE REMOVAL
BY
NAME:- PRITIKANA MAITY(L16/CHE/06)
BHUBAN CHANDRA HALDAR(L16/CHE/07)
SUSANTA SHIT(L16/CHE/02)
SURAJ KEWAT (15/CHE/59)
UNDER THE GUIDENCE OF :- DR. BARNALI BEJ & DR. LIPIKA DAS
DEPARTMENT :- CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
PAPER NAME :- PROJECT WORK 1
PAPER CODE :- CHE-795
NAME OF THE CALLEGE :- HALDIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY :- MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
(FORMERLY WEST BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY)
SESSION :- 2016 - 2019
 CONTENT
• INTRODUCTION
• LITERATURE REVIEW
• PRESENT WORK
• REFERENCE
 INTRODUCTION
Water is the most important raw material for human beings, animals,
plants, and micro-organisms. Virtually all vital phenomena of the
biosphere are related to the availability of water. Due to the rapid
development in technology, water pollution is a major problem
being faced by society today. The discharge of industrial,
agricultural, and domestic wastewaters without treatment or with
inadequate treatment level causes degradation of ecosystems.
Among industries consuming water in large quantities, the textile
industry with that of tanneries came top of the list. These activities
generate a significant pollution in wastewater being highly loaded
with acidic or basic dyes, salts, and adjuvants. Different sorbents
have been conventionally used for the removal of dyes from
aqueous solutions, whereas activated carbon has been widely used in
the recent past due to the presence of different surface oxygen
functional groups at its surface, its pore structure, and also for the
high adsorption capacity.
 LITERATURE REVIEW
Dye removal from aqueous solution by raw maize corncob and H3PO4 activated maize Corncob :-
Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination (2017) 8 (2): 214-224.
The focus of this study is the investigation of removal ability of methylene blue
(MB) and malachite green (MG) dyes from aqueous solution by raw maize corncob
(RMC) and H3PO4 activated maize corncob (AMC). Maize corncobs were
carbonized at 500 °C for 2 h, and then impregnated at a phosphoric acid to maize
corncob ratio of 2.5 g/g. The impregnated maize corncob was activated in a tubular
vertical furnace at 450 °C for 2 h. Samples were characterized by different methods.
Adsorption experiments were carried out as a function of solution pH, adsorbent
dosage, contact time, initial concentration of dyes and the temperature.
Experimental results show that the activation of maize corncob boosts four times
the adsorption performance for the selected dyes. The adsorption process is very
rapid and was pH dependent with high adsorption capacities in the basic range. The
kinetic data were fitted with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model. The best fit of
equilibrium data was obtained by the Langmuir model with maximum monolayer
adsorption capacities of 75.27 and 271.19 mg/g for MB, 76.42 and 313.63 mg/g for
MG, respectively, in the case of RMC and AMC. The temperature did not have
much influence on the adsorption performance.
 LITERATURE REVIEW
Removal of methylene blue from aqueous solution by adsorption onto
activated carbon prepared from animal bone and corncob – an agricultural
waste :-
• Journal- World News of Natural Sciences, Year - 2018
Synthetic dyes are widely used in industries such as rubber, textiles, plastics, paper,
and cosmetics. to color their products. The effectiveness of adsorption for dye
removal from wastewater has made it an ideal alternative to other expensive
treatment methods. This study investigates the physicochemical properties of animal
bone (AB) and corncob (CC) derived activeted carbon on the removal of methylene
blue dye. The effects of condition variables such as initial dye concentration,
adsorbent dose, pH and contact time were studied. The result shows that animal
bone derived activated carbon have good potential for dye removal than corn cobs.
The AB revealed higher adsorption capacity of intensity (2.40) and it is of higher
surface area, 500 m2g–1 while CC has adsorptive capacity of 1.25, intensity of 2.80
and surface area of 420 m2/g–1. The removal efficiency increases as adsorbent dose
increases. This makes it an interesting option for dye removal from aqueous solution
of dye.
 LITERATURE REVIEW
Methylene Blue and Brilliant Green Dyes Removal from Aqueous
Solution Using Agricultural Wastes Activated Carbon:-
Received: January 30, 2017; Accepted: June 25, 2017; Published: June 28, 2017
This paper investigated the analyses of removal of Methylene Blue (MB) and
Brilliant Green (BG) dyes from aqueous solutions by adsorption on activated
carbon prepared by chemical activation of coconut shell, eucalyptus tree, corn
cob and flamboyant pod. It was found that the carbon pores increased after
carbonization and activation processes. The maximum percentage MB removal
was obtained as 95.0% for coconut shell, 93.2% for eucalyptus tree, 99.9% for
corn cob, and 99.7% for flamboyant pod. Also, the maximum percentage BG
removal was obtained as 97.0% for coconut shell, 98.2% for eucalyptus tree,
99.6% for corn cob, and 99.6% for flamboyant pod. The adsorption isotherms
of the adsorption process were studied, and Freundlich model showed the best
fit with the equilibrium data. To optimize the operating conditions, the effects of
contact time, adsorbent dosage, and pH were investigated by two levels of
factorial experimental design method and adsorbent dosage was found as the
most significant factor.
 PRESENT WORK
The object of the present work is to utilize corncob, a waste from
agricultural field into useful product such as an adsorben. It is
further extended im synthesis of composite adorbent with corncob.
Effectiveness of composite adsorbent is tested in removal of dye
methyl violet from aqueous solution. The work is devided onto the
parts:-
• Collection of corncob from agriculture field
• Washong & drying of Corncob
• Burning of Corncob
• Charecterization
• Adsorption Studies
• Observation & Calculation
• Result & Discussion
REFERENCES