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Article: The removal of methyl red from aqueous solutions using banana pseudostem fibers.(Report)
- Article from:
- American Journal of Applied Sciences
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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INTRODUCTION
Rapid progress in industrial activities during recent years has led to the discharge of unprecedented amount of wastewater containing synthetic dyes, which pollutes the rivers and consequently causes harm to human and other living organisms. A majority of the used dyes are azo reactive dyes (1). These are bright color dyes due to the presence of one or several azo (-N = N-) groups associated with substituted aromatic structures (2). Effluents from textile, leather, food processing, cosmetics, paper and dye manufacturing industries are some examples of the sources of discharged azo dyes (3). These dyes or their breakdown products are toxic to living ...