OPTIMIZATION OF EOSIN

DYE REMOVAL USING

SYNTHESEIZED ZEOLYTE Y
BY
OKUNBOR GREAT OSAGIE
17BB004957/1700385
PROJECT SUPERVISOR; ENGR. J.B ADEOYE
 OVERVIEW OF PROPOSAL
• INTRODUCTION
• PROBLEM STATEMENT
• SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCH
• AIM AND OBJECTIVES
• PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
• PROPOSED RESEARCH PROJECT PLAN
• REFERENCES
 INTRODUCTION

The wastewater containing dyes, generated by the textile, printing and papermaking
industries, pose major hazard to the environment and the public health. Many of the
dyes used in these industries are generally toxic and nondegradable. Basic dyes are the
brightest class of soluble dyes used in the textile industry (Chunfeng et al., 2009).
During the last few years, various methods, such as aerobic and anaerobic microbial
degradations, electrochemical treatment, hydrogen peroxide catalysis, chemical
oxidation, reverse osmosis, coagulation, and flocculation, have been investigated for
the removal of these dyes (Chunfeng et al., 2009). Most of these methods suffer from
several disadvantages, such as high capital, operational costs, and problem of
unsuccessful removal of the coloration from wastewater.
 INTRODUCTION (CONTD.)
Adsorption techniques using solid absorbents are well established for
treating industrial wastewater. Currently, activated carbon is the most
popular adsorbent used for the removal of dyes, as well as other organic and
inorganic pollutants from wastewater because of its significant effectiveness.
Considering discharged volume, this has encouraged research into
developing the low-cost and effective adsorbents to purify water
contaminated with dyes ( e.g Zeolite Y).
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
Water pollution caused by dyes has become one of the most important
problems in the world in recent times. High concentration of dyeing
wastewater discharge has caused a series of problems (Xia et al., 2018).
Various materials have been studied as adsorbents for Eosin dye so far, such as
magnetite nanoparticles (Kumari, & Shekhar, 2018), chitosan (Han & Miao,
2008; Liu et al., 2021). Currently, more and more attention has been paid to
the use of cheap materials as adsorbent (Kwon et al., 2010), Zeolite Y will be
used in this study because it is environment friendly and has a large surface
area.
 SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCH

Good water quality is highly essential for human life, aquatic life and the
whole earth ecology system. Adsorption of dyes from aqueous solution has
proven to be an excellent approach to treating effluents as well as a cost-
effective technique when compared with other methods (Lotfi Mouni et al.,
2018). Zeolite Y synthesis has proffered cheaper route, lower reaction
temperature and has a wide range to adsorb dye due to its porous size.
Optimization is carried out to get the optimum condition in which the dye is
adsorbed.
 AIM AND OBJECTIVES

The aim of this study is to optimize the removal of Eosin dye by synthesized
zeolite, in which the objectives are;
Characterize Zeolite Y before and after adsorption
Study the parameter variable on the adsorption of dye on prepared
adsorbent (zeolite Y)
Investigate the optimum condition.
 PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
Using CCD partial variable (32 runs) on the design expert, the variables that
have been proposed for the project are;
Variables Symbols Conditions

pH A 5.5 – 11.5

Temperature B 20◦c - 60◦c

Time C 30 – 60 minutes

Adsorbate D 20 – 60 mg/lt

Adsorbent E 0.1 – 0.5 grams

Flow diagram showing adsorption of eosin dye
 PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
(CONTD.)
• To get the final percentage removal using the initial and
final concentrations of the solution the equation below
is used;
% Removal * 100
 Table showing percentage removal of adsorbate using different
design and adsorbent.

S/N ADSORBENT ADSORBATE DESIGN TYPE % REFERENCE

REMOVAL
1 ZEOLITE Y Ca(ii) CCD 98.5 Upenyu Guyo et
al., 2017
2 ZEOLITE Y Methylene Blue Box-Behnken 98.4 Alver and
Metin, 2012
3 ZEOLITE Y Eosin Box-Behnken 98.1 Sapawe et al,
2013
 PROPOSED RESEARCH PROJECT PLAN
TASK DURATION
Gathering Required Materials December - February
Research Proposal Development And Review Of November - December
Literature
Writing Of Literature Review & Submission December - February
Developing The Experimental Procedure December - January
Experimental Work February - April
Analysis/ Characterization Of Experimental Results April - May

Interpretation Of Results May - June

Progress Report May
Report Writing May - July
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