Effective Photodegradation of Methyl Orange Using Fluidized Bed Reactor Loaded with Cross-Linked Chitosan Embedded Nano-CdS Photocatalyst

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(a) Methyl orange adsorption-photodegradation curves (abbreviations: NC, EC, and GC) denote noncross-linked, epichlorohydrin cross-linked and glutaraldehyde, cross-linked chitosan catalyst composites, respectively. (b) The corresponding linearized plots of pseudo-second order adsorption kinetics. (c) The corresponding linearized plots of pseudo-first order photodegradation kinetics.

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