Experimental work on decontamination of wastewaters containing organic dye by liquid phase micro extraction method

Abstract

Nowadays, the innovative processes for refining industrial dye wastewater are often used to reduce the toxicity of these pollutants due to satisfy the treatment standards. This paper presents a study on the removal of methylene blue (MB) and thymol blue (TB) dyes from contaminated water using a mono-and di-ester mixture(MDEHPA) as the extractant in a Y-Y junction microchannel. Operating parameters such as aqueous solution pH, and extractant and residence time were optimized. The maximum rates of TB and MB extraction were achieved to be 97.9% and 98.4%, respectively. Mass transfer performance is surveyed using overall volumetric mass transfer coefficient determination (kLα).