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International Journal of Nonferrous Metallurgy, 2012, 1, 32-41 /10.4236/ijnm.2012.13005 Published Online October 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijnm) Removal of Chromium(III) from the Waste Solution of an Indian Tannery by Amberlite IR 120 Resin 1 1* 1 Pratima Meshram , Sushanta Kumar Sahu , Banshi Dhar Pandey , Vinay Kumar1, Tilak Raj Mankhand2 1Metal Extraction Forming Division, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, India 2Department of Metallurgical Engineering, IIT BHU, Varanasi, India * Email: sushanta_sk@ Received July 12, 2012; revised August 19, 2012; accepted August 29, 2012 ABSTRACT The extraction of chromium(III) from a model waste solution and also from a waste solution of an Indian tannery with Amberlite IR 120 resin is described, and the performance of this resin is compared with other similar resins. The pa- rameters that were optimized include effect of mixing time, pH, loading and elution behaviours of chromium(III) for this resin. Sorption of chromium(III) on Amberlite IR 120 followed Freundlich isotherm and Langmuir isotherm model, and the maximum sorption capacity was determined to be 142.86 mg Cr(III)/g of the resin. Higher Freundlich constant (K ) values (6.30 and 13.46 for aqueous feed of 500 and 1000 ppm Cr(III)) indicated strong chemical interaction f through ion exchange mechanism of the metal ion with the resin. The kinetic data showed good fit to the Lagergren first order model for extraction of chromium(III). Desorption