IMPORTANCE OF Methylene blue (MB) VALUE IN ACTIVATED CARBON Bamboo, an abundant and inexpensive natural resource was used to prepare activated carbon by physiochemical activation with potassium hydroxide (KOH) and carbon dioxide (CO2) as the activating agents at 850 °C for 2 h. The adsorption equilibrium and kinetics of methylene blue dye on such carbon were then examined at 30 °C. Adsorption isotherm of the methylene blue (MB) on the activated carbon was determined and correlated with common isotherm equations. The equilibrium data for methylene blue adsorption well fitted to the Langmuir equation, with maximum monolayer adsorption capacity of 454.2 mg/g. Two simplified kinetic models including pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order equation were selected to follow the adsorption processes. The adsorption of methylene blue could be best described by the pseudo-second-order equation. |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN GUAJARAT| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN VADODARA| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN TAMILNADU| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN GOA| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN KARNATAKA| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN CHENNAI| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN KALKATA| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN INDOR| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN PUNE| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN ANDHRAPRADESH| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN MADHYAPRADESH| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN ASSAM| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN NASIK| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN NAGPUR| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN RAJSHTHAN| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN ORRISA| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN BIHAR| |ACTIVATED CARBON MANUFACTURER IN UTTER PRADESH|