Affiliations 

  • 1 Micropollutant Research Centre (MPRC), Faculty of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), 86400, Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia. Electronic address: adel@uthm.edu.my
  • 2 Micropollutant Research Centre (MPRC), Faculty of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), 86400, Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Chemical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, 603110, India
  • 4 Micropollutant Research Centre (MPRC), Faculty of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), 86400, Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia. Electronic address: maya@uthm.edu.my
Chemosphere, 2022 Jan;287(Pt 2):132080.
PMID: 34509011 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132080

Abstract

Rhodamine B (RhB) is among the toxic dyes due to the carcinogenic, neurotoxic effects and ability to cause several diseases for humans. The adsorption with agricultural waste adsorbent recorded high performance for the RhB removal. The current review aimed to explore the efficiency of different adsorbents which have been used in the few last years for removing RhB dye from wastewater. The data of adsorption of RhB using agricultural wastes were collected from the Scopus database in the period between 2015 and 2021. The use of agricultural wastes and adsorbents as a replacement for the activated has received high attention among researchers. The RhB removal methods by microbial enzymes and biomass occurred between 76 and 90.1%. In comparison, the adsorption with agricultural wastes such as activated carbon white sugar reached 98% within 12 min. The adsorption process has a wide range of pH (3-10) due to the zwitterionic forms of RhB. Gmelina aborea leaf activated carbon is among the agriculture wastes absorbents that exhibited 1000 mg g-1 of the adsorption capacity. It appeared that the agricultural wastes adsorbents have a high potential for removing RhB from the wastewater.

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