Phenol Removal from Aqueous Solution by Adsorption Process: Study of The Nanoparticles Performance Prepared from Alo vera and Mesquite (Prosopis) Leaves

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1 Environmental Health Engineering Research Center, Department of Environmental Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman,Iran

2 Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

3 Lecturer and Research Fellow in Health policy and Economics, Health Systems and Global Populations, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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This study was performed to measure the potential utilization of agro-waste to generate nanoparticles and evaluate the capability of it’s as a low cost adsorbent for removal of phenol. Adsorption studies for phenol removal by using Aloe vera and Mesquite leaves nanoparticles carried out under various experimental conditions including pH, nano-bioadsorbent dosage, phenol concentration, contact time, temperature and ionic strength in a batch reactor. The adsorption kinetics by pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order models and isotherm technique by Freundlich and Langmuir isotherms models were applied. The results showed that the rate of phenol adsorption increases in both nano-bioadsorbents with an increase of pH up to 7, adsorbent dosage up to 0.08 gL-1, phenol initial concentration up to 32 mgL-1, contact time up to 60 min and raising in temperature. The adsorption data followed the Freundlich isotherm model. The kinetic studies indicated that the adsorption of phenol with nano-bioadsorbents was best described by the pseudo second order kinetics. We found that the nanoparticles prepared from Aloe vera and Mesquite leaves had a high capability in adsorption of phenol, beside the point that they could be accessed at a low cost. These agro-wastes can be used to remove phenol from aqueous environments.

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 24, Issue 6 - Serial Number 6
Transactions on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (C)
November and December 2017
Pages 3041-3052

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