화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.57, 396-404, January, 2018
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2017.08.048  Export Citation
Adsorption of p-Cresol on Al2O3 coated multi-walled carbon nanotubes: Response surface methodology and isotherm study
Jalil Jaafari1, 2, †, Mohammad Ghanbari Ghozikali3, Ali Azari4, Mohammad Bagher Delkhosh5, Allah Bakhsh Javid6, Ali Akbar Mohammadi7, †, Shilpi Agarwal8, Vinod Kumar Gupta8, †, Mika Sillanpää9, Alexey G. Tkachev10, and Alexander E. Burakov10
  • 1School of Health, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
  • 2Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  • 3Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
  • 4Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
  • 5Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran
  • 6School of Public Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
  • 7Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran
  • 8Department of Applied Chemistry,, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 9Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, 10555, West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33174, USA
  • 10Tambov State Technical University, 106, Sovetskaya Str., Tambov 392000, Russia, Russian Federation
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The development and design of adsorbents with high adsorption performance is an effective method of removing p-Cresol from effluent for environmental protection. Therefore, an Al2O3 coated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) composite for adsorption of p-Cresol from aqueous solution was synthesized. The p-Cresol concentration was determined by estimating the absorbance of the sample solution on a DR5000 UV/vis spectrophotometer. Box-Behanken design (BBD) was involved in the optimization of p-Cresol adsorption upon Al2O3 coated MWNTs adsorbent against the process parameters time, pH and adsorbent dose. The effects of these factors were studied in the ranges 5- 40 min, 4-10, and 0.2-2 g L-1, respectively. The lack of fit obtained for this model was 0.357 which confirmed that the model is highly significant and the experiments are accurate and reliable. The results showed that adsorption isotherms fit well with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and Langmuir isotherm model and Qmax was calculated to be 54.05 mg/g. Our results demonstrate that Al2O3 coated MWNTs has the potential to be used as an effective adsorbent for the rapid uptake of p-Cresol from aqueous solutions.
Keywords:Al2O3;MWNTs;p-Cresol;Box.Behanken;Adsorption
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