Nanomaterial Surface Modifications for Enhancement of the Pollutant Adsorption From Wastewater

Author(s):  
Hamidreza Sadegh ◽  
Gomaa A. M. Ali ◽  
Hamid Jafari Nia ◽  
Zahra Mahmoodi

With the development of dyeing, textile, leather, paper, and other chemical industries, an increasing amount of dye wastewater containing refractory organic dyes is discharged. Undoubtedly, much high content dye wastewater will lead to serious environmental issues such as color pollution, light penetration interference, and virulence to aquatic organisms, even endanger human health. Therefore, it is an imminent problem and has become a global concern to degrade dye wastewater efficiently. So far, many techniques have been used to degrade dyeing wastewater, such as chemical degradation, biological degradation, photochemical degradation, coagulation, membrane filtration, and combined methods. These methods have certain impacts on the degradation of dye wastewater, but usually with slow degradation rate, complex and high operation costs, as well as easily causing secondary pollution. The adsorption process is a simple, effective, and low-cost way to remove dyes.

Author(s):  
Ahmed Zaghloul ◽  
Ridouan Benhiti ◽  
Rachid Aziam ◽  
Abdeljalil Ait Ichou ◽  
Mhamed Abali ◽  
...  

Increasing amount of organic dyes in the ecosystem particularly in wastewater has propelled the search for more efficient low-cost bio adsorbents. Different techniques have been used for the treatment of wastewater containing toxic dyes such as: biological degradation, oxidation, adsorption, reverse osmosis, and membrane filtration. Among all these processes mentioned, adsorption with low cost adsorbents has been recognized as one of the cost effective and efficient techniques for treatment of industrial wastewater from organic and inorganic pollutants. Clays as material adsorbents for the removal of various toxic dyes from aqueous solutions as potential alternatives to activated carbons has recently received widespread attention because of the environmental-friendly nature of clay materials. This chapter presents a comprehensive account of the techniques used for the removal of industrial cationic and anionic dyes from water during the last 10 years with special reference to the adsorption by using low cost materials in decontamination processes. Effects of different adsorption parameters on the performance of clays as adsorbents have been also discussed. Various challenges encountered in using clay materials are highlighted and a number of future prospects for the adsorbents are proposed.


Author(s):  
Seroor Atalah Khaleefa Alia ◽  
Dr. Mohammed Ibrahimb ◽  
Hussein Ali Hussein

Adsorption is most commonly applied process for the removal of pollutants such as dyes and heavy metals ions from wastewater. The present work talks about preparing graphenic material attached sand grains called graphene sand composite (GSC) by using ordinary sugar as a carbon source. Physical morphology and chemical composition of GSC was examined by using (FTIR, SEM, EDAX and XRD). Efficiency of GSC in the adsorption of organic dyes from water was investigated using reactive green dye with different parameters such as (ph, temperature, contact time and dose). Adsorption isotherm was also studied and the results showed that the maximum adsorption capacity of dye is 28.98 mg/g. This fast, low-cost process can be used to manufacture commercial filters to treat contaminated water using appropriate engineering designs.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (99) ◽  
pp. 96573-96583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja Mohamed Sait Thameem Azarudeen ◽  
Marimuthu Govindarajan ◽  
Abubucker Amsath ◽  
Shine Kadaikunnan ◽  
Naiyf S. Alharbi ◽  
...  

As a low-cost and eco-friendly control tool, Ag nanoparticles were fabricated usingHedyotis puberulaaqueous extract as a reducing and capping agent and showed potent activity against malaria and arbovirus vectors with low biotoxicity against non-target aquatic organisms.


Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Beomjin Kim ◽  
Woo Chang Song ◽  
Sun Young Park ◽  
Geuntae Park

The green synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) using bio-materials has attained enormous attention in recent years due to its simple, eco-friendly, low-cost and non-toxic nature. In this work, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were synthesized by the marine algae extract, Sargassum serratifolium (SS). The characteristic studies of bio-synthesized SS-AgNPs and SS-AuNPs were carried out by using ultraviolet–visible (UV–Vis) absorption spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering (DLS), high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HR-TEM), selected area electron diffraction (SAED), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). Phytochemicals in the algae extract, such as meroterpenoids, acted as a capping agent for the NPs’ growth. The synthesized Ag and Au NPs were found to have important catalytic activity for the degradation of organic dyes, including methylene blue, rhodamine B and methyl orange. The reduction of dyes by SS-AgNPs and -AuNPs followed the pseudo-first order kinetics.


2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norzita Ngadi ◽  
Chin Chiek Ee ◽  
Nor Aida Yusoff

Dyes contain carcinogenic materials which can cause serious hazards to aquatic life and the users of water. Textile industry is the main source of dye wastewater which results in environmental pollution. Many studies have been conducted to investigate the use of low cost adsorbent as an alternative technique for the adsorption of dye. The objective of this study is to determine the potential of eggshell powder as an adsorbent for methylene blue removal and find out the best operating conditions for the color adsorption at laboratory scale. The adsorption of cationic methylene blue from aqueous solution onto the eggshell powder was carried out by varying the operating parameters which were contact time, pH, dosage of eggshell powder and temperature in order to study their effect in adsorption capacity of eggshell powder. The results obtained showed that the best operating condition for removal of methylene blue was at pH 10 (78.98 %) and temperature 50°C (47.37 %) by using 2 g of eggshell powder (57.03 %) with 30 minutes equilibrium time (41.36 %). The kinetic studies indicated that pseudo-second-order model best described the adsorption process.


Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 364 (6439) ◽  
pp. eaav9713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asik Hossain ◽  
Aditya Bhattacharyya ◽  
Oliver Reiser

Visible-light photoredox catalysis offers a distinct activation mode complementary to thermal transition metal catalyzed reactions. The vast majority of photoredox processes capitalizes on precious metal ruthenium(II) or iridium(III) complexes that serve as single-electron reductants or oxidants in their photoexcited states. As a low-cost alternative, organic dyes are also frequently used but in general suffer from lower photostability. Copper-based photocatalysts are rapidly emerging, offering not only economic and ecological advantages but also otherwise inaccessible inner-sphere mechanisms, which have been successfully applied to challenging transformations. Moreover, the combination of conventional photocatalysts with copper(I) or copper(II) salts has emerged as an efficient dual catalytic system for cross-coupling reactions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 2022-2040

Almond shell (AS) is a low-cost adsorbent used in this study for the removal of methylene blue (MB), crystal violet (CV), and Congo red (CR) from an aqueous solution in single and mixture binary systems. The low-cost adsorbent was characterized by FTIR and SEM analysis. The effects of AS dose, contact time, initial dye concentration, pH, and temperature on MB, CV, and CR adsorption were studied in a single system. In a binary system, the MB, CV, and CR were removed from the mixture of MB+CR, CV+MB, and CV+CR with a percentage in volume ranging from 0 to 100 % in MB and CV, and CR. Kinetic studies showed rapid sorption following a second-order kinetic model with of contact time of 10 min. The modulation of adsorption isotherms showed that retention follows the Langmuir model. The thermodynamic parameters proved that the MB, CV, and CR adsorption process was feasible, spontaneous, and exothermic. The synergy adsorption between dyes in a binary mixture of MB+CR and CV+CR, while the competition adsorption between dyes in a binary mixture of MB+ CV.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-246
Author(s):  
Kaur Harpreet ◽  
Kaur Harpreet ◽  
Vandana Kamboj ◽  
Vandana Kamboj

Water is the most crucial thing to mankind and so its contamination by various agencies is posing a threat to the natural balance. So, in the present work, the efficiency of various adsorbents derived from plant waste, to remove different dyes from aqueous solution was evaluated. Parameters for study were contact time, concentration and pH. Various combinations of plant ashes were used for the study. It was found that adsorbent prepared from the combination of orange peels, pomegranate and banana peels ashes, exhibited good adsorption capacity for methylene blue, congo red and crystal violet. All these dyes were completely removed from the aqueous solution while methyl orange was not removed. Congo red was removed completely within 40 min of contact with the adsorbent while methyl orange took 3 hrs to be removed to the extent of 48% only. The adsorption coefficient of congo red was found to be 2.33 while value for methylene blue and crystal violet was 1 and 1.66 respectively. The characterization of adsorbent was done by Scanning Electron Microscopy and IR spectroscopy. SEM image revealed the surface of adsorbent to be made of differential pores. From the results it became evident that the low-cost adsorbent could be used as a replacement for costly traditional methods of removing colorants from water.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaogang Ren ◽  
Fang Chen ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Zhongxian Song ◽  
Ziyu Zhou ◽  
...  

To address organic dye wastewater, economic and effective adsorbents are required. Here, magnetic biochar from alkali-activated rice straw (AMBC) was successfully synthesized using one-step magnetization and carbonization method. The alkaline activation caused the large specific surface area, high pore volume and abundant oxygen-containing groups of the AMBC, and the magnetization gave the AMBC a certain degree of electropositivity and fast equilibrium characteristics. These characteristics collectively contributed to a relative high adsorption capacity of 53.66 mg g<sup>−1</sup> for this adsorbent towards rhodamine B (RhB). In brief, RhB can spontaneously adsorb onto the heterogeneous surface of the AMBC and reach the equilibrium in 60 min. Although the initial pH, ionic strength and other substances of the solution affected the adsorption performance of the AMBC, it could be easily regenerated and reused with considerable adsorption content. Based on the results, H-bonds, π–π stacking and electrostatic interactions were speculated as the primary mechanisms for RhB adsorption onto the AMBC, which was also demonstrated by the FTIR analysis. With the advantageous features of low cost, easy separation, considerable adsorption capacity and favorable stability and reusability, the AMBC would be a potential adsorbent for removing organic dyes from wastewater.


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