Brijesh Nair A-N

Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

School of Civil Engineering

Vellore Campus

Moumita Poddar

Amit B Mahindrakar

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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A Review on the Use of Rapid Small Scale Column Test (RSSCT) on Predicting Adsorption of Various Contaminants

IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology

Protein-functionalised aluminium nanosheets (PRS–AlNs) were packed in a continuous fixed-bed column to remove crystal violet (CV) and Congo red (CR) dyes. A group of characterisation techniques, like SEM, TEM, AFM, XRD, BET, DSC and Raman spectroscopy, was performed for PRS–AlNs. The influence of several factors like bed depth (1, 2 and 3 cm), inlet dye concentration (50, 100 and 150 mg/L) and inlet flow rate (1.17, 2.26 and 3.34 mL/min) on the characteristics of the breakthrough profile of the adsorption process was examined at optimum pH 9.8 and 3.5 for CV and CR, respectively. The maximum adsorption capacity was achieved as 38.70 and 57.86 mg/g for CV and CR at 1 cm bed depth, 150 mg/L inlet concentration of the dye and 3.34 mL/min inlet rate of flow. The experimental data were analysed using kinetic models like the Yoon–Nelson, Adams–Bohart and Thomas models. Also, a detailed mechanism behind the CV and CR adsorption using PRS–AlNs was proposed in this research work. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]. © 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Application of protein-functionalised aluminium nanosheets synthesised from sewage sludge for dye removal in a fixed-bed column: Investigation on design parameters and kinetic models

Journal	IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology
Publisher	IOSR Journals
ISSN	2319-2399
Open Access	0