SUNLIGHT-INDUCED PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION OF METHYL RED USING LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS RICINUS COMMUNIS STEM WITH ISOTHERM AND KINETIC MODELING

Abstract

Nowadays, Water pollution is a major global issue brought on by the mixing of effluents from various industries, such as leather, paper, printing cosmetics, Textile etc. containing metal ions and dyes. This impact causes severe damage to the health of human, aquatic plants and animals. In the view of removing the dyes from the wastewater the several techniques available poses certain drawbacks. To combat such issues a rapid, cost effective, eco-friendly and sludge less method for removing dye from the effluent using activated Ricinus communis stem as a catalyst in solar irradiation method is discussed and reported with results. The adsorption studies carried out followed by degradation of methyl red onto Si –RCS shows that the prepared adsorbent material Si-RCS can be used as an effective adsorbent as well as photo catalyst to treat textile effluents.