Abstract:
In recent years, adsorption is one of the most successful approaches that has been
utilized to efficiently remove dyes from industrial wastewater among numerous
physical and chemical wastewater treatment technologies. Due to their high specific
surface area, thermal stability, substantial cation exchange capacity, porosity,
abundance in nature, and interesting adsorbent properties, clays may be potentially
useful natural adsorbent material for the adsorption of a variety of contaminants. The
objective of this work was the removal of the cationic dye (methylene blue) from
aqueous solution using Maredan natural clay as a low-cost adsorbent. The effect of
adsorbent dose was investigated. The optimum adsorbent dosage to remove 50 ppm
methylene blue was obtained 80 mg. The removal efficiency obtained was 96.13%.
