TY - JFULL AU - P. Gomathi Priya and M. E. Thenmozhi PY - 2018/7/ TI - Adsorption of Reactive Dye Using Entrapped nZVI T2 - International Journal of Chemical and Molecular Engineering SP - 267 EP - 273 VL - 12 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10009066 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 138, 2018 N2 - Iron nanoparticles were used to cleanup effluents. This paper involves synthesis of iron nanoparticles chemically by sodium borohydride reduction of ammonium ferrous sulfate solution (FAS). Iron oxide nanoparticles have lesser efficiency of adsorption than Zero Valent Iron nanoparticles (nZVI). Glucosamine acts as a stabilizing agent and chelating agent to prevent Iron nanoparticles from oxidation. nZVI particles were characterized using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Thus, the synthesized nZVI was subjected to entrapment in biopolymer, viz. barium (Ba)-alginate beads. The beads were characterized using SEM. Batch dye degradation studies were conducted using Reactive black Water soluble Nontoxic Natural substances (WNN) dye which is one of the most hazardous dyes used in textile industries. Effect of contact time, effect of pH, initial dye concentration, adsorbent dosage, isotherm and kinetic studies were carried out. ER -