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Journal of Environmental Sciences 21(2009) 296–302 Chitosan and chemically modified chitosan beads for acid dyes sorption 1, 2 2 AZLAN Kamari , WAN SAIME Wan Ngah , LAI KEN Liew 1. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Perak, Malaysia. E-mail: azlkam@yahoo.co.uk 2. School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia Received 01 April 2008; revised 27 May 2008; accepted 12 June 2008 Abstract The capabilities of chitosan and chitosan-EGDE (ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether) beads for removing Acid Red 37 (AR 37) and Acid Blue 25 (AB 25) from aqueous solution were examined. Chitosan beads were cross-linked with EGDE to enhance its chemical resistance and mechanical strength. Experiments were performed as a function of pH, agitation period and concentration of AR 37 and AB 25. It was shown that the adsorption capacities of chitosan for both acid dyes were comparatively higher than those of chitosan- EGDE. This is mainly because cross-linking using EGDE reduces the major adsorption sites -NH3 on chitosan. Langmuir isotherm model showed the best conformity compared to Freundlich and BET. The kinetic experimental data agreed very well to the pseudo second-order kinetic model. The desorption study revealed that after three cycles of adsorption and desorption by NaOH and HCl, both adsorbents retained their promising adsorption abilities. FT-IR analysis proved that the adsorption of acid dyes onto chitosan-based adsorbents was a physical adsorption. Results also showed that chitosan and chitosan-EGDE beads were favourable adsorbers and could b