Removal of Basic Blue 159 from Aqueous Solution Using Banana Peel as a Low-Cost Adsorbent

In this paper, the adsorption of basic blue159 (bb159) onto banana peel as a low-cost material was studied. at first, the banana peel was sieved. later, banana peel particles were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy (fesem), energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (edxs) and fourier transform infrared (ftir) techniques. batch adsorption experiments were carried out as a function of ph, contact time, initial dye concentration, the mass of adsorbent and mixing speed. batch adsorption models, based on the assumption of the pseudo-first-order, pseudo-second-order, elovich and intraparticle diffusion mechanism, showed that kinetic data follow closely the pseudo-second-order model. results indicate that banana peel could be used as an adsorbent to remove the cationic dyes from contaminated watercourses.