Evaluation of Catalytic Properties of Red Mud

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Many industries, such as paper, plastics, food, cosmetics, textile, etc., use dyes in order to colour their products. The presence of these dyes in water, even at very low concentrations, is highly visible and undesirable. Since some of these dyes are toxic in nature, their removal from the industrial effluents is a major environmental problem. The objective of this work is to verify the catalytic activity of waste from metal production namely waste from aluminium production red mud for removal of methylene blue. This waste is still dumped on dumping ground and may be a potential environmental problem.

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