Abstract

REMOVAL OF RHODAMINE B DYE BY ADSORPTION TECHNIQUE USING NATURAL ADSORBENTS OF PLANT ORIGIN

*S. Priscilla Prabhavathi, Ranjith, Shameela Rajam, Maruthamuthu

Abstract

Due to industrial revolution, number of industries have increased enormously in recent years. These industries discharge industrial waste water into the aquatic systems affecting flora and fauna, which in turn affect animals and human beings as these effluents contain many dissolved synthetic dyes. Some of the Industries like textile industry, tanning industry, paper industry, food industry and chemical industry using (or) manufacturing compounds like Rhodamine B and methylene blue. These are very harmful for living organisms and aquatic life. Due to the leaching of dyes, ground water gets contaminated by using these dyes unknowingly and get accumulated in the liver and kidney of animals and human beings. In the present work, It is planned to conduct batch mode adsorption study by colorimetric method for the removal of Rhodamine B from waste water using Neem seed powder (NSP) and Jamun seed powder (JSP) as adsorbents.

Keywords: Dyes, Rhodamine B, Neem seed Powder (NSP), Jumble Seed Powder (JSP), Adsorption and Waste water.