Adsorption Behaviors of Acid Dyes by Water-Insoluble Crosslinked Cationic Starch
This paper presents a study on the adsorption of structurally different C.I. Acid Red 1(AR-1) and C.I. Acid Yellow 4(AY-4) from aqueous solution by a series water-insoluble crosslinked cationic starches with different degrees of substitution (DS) synthesized by a dry process. The adsorption quickly establish equilibrium within 15 min. The effective adsorption took place at the initial pH of 2-10 and pH of 2-8 for AR-1 and AY-4, respectively. The adsorption capacity of the two acid dyes increased with the increasing of DS of the crosslinked cationic starches. The adsorption capacity of AY-4 was almost two times higher than that of AR-1 under the present conditions. It was found that the adsorption kinetics of the two acid dyes on the crosslinked cationic starch was well described with the pseudo-second-order model (R2>0.99). Further, the Langmuir isotherm agreed well with the experimental data (R2>0.99). Besides, the thermodynamic parameters are shown.