UV-A Activated ZnO Mediated Photocatalytic Decolorization of Nigrosine ( Acid Black 2 ) Dye in Aqueous Solution

The present study deals with studied the essential requirements for photo-decoulorization of nigrosine dye with suspension solution of photocatalyst (ZnO), under 250 Watt UV-A light (Io = 1.47 × 10 ensien s). A kinetics study of photo-decolourization for this dye was obeyed to pseudo-first order. The best initial pH of decolorization at 25 mg/L of dye solution with 300 mg of ZnO was given a fast reaction at 8.17. The calculated activation energy for this photoreaction was found to be 31.549 kJ·mol. Thermodynamically, the reaction is exothermic and spontaneously. The efficiency of decolorizatio E% was 97.077 at 15 min that decreased with addition oxidant reagents such as H2O2, Fe and mixture from them.


Introduction
There are more than 100,000 varieties of dyes available in the market, which used in the textile, cosmetics, food, paper, leather industries and Medications industries.Whereas over 700,000 tons per were produced in worldwide.About 10% of the above amount of used dye is lost as wastewater, which affected on the environment by leading to Poisoning of living organisms [1] [2] [3].
During the Industrial Revolution, the synthetic dyes were quickly replaced with the commercial textiles manufactured and unlike the natural dyes, because of these dyes were suitable for synthetic fibers [4].
Nigrosin dye is a mixture of artificial black dyes (CI 50415, Solvent black 5) M. T. Jaafar DOI: 10.4236/gep.2017.59010139 Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection made by heating a mixture of aniline, nitrobenzene and aniline hydrochloride in found the existence of catalyst like copper or iron.The advantage of sulfonation of nigrosine dye is yielded it ability for solubling in water as anionic dye.The main industrial employed for nigrosin dye is done as a marker-pen inks and colorant for varnishes.In biology field, the nigrosin dye is employed for negative Staining bacteria, as well as the capsule-containing fungus and Cryptococcus neoformans [5] [6].
Heterogeneous photocatalysis has performed an adevastating mission technology that caused to the total mineralization of most of the organic pollutants like organic dyes.Titania (TiO 2 ) is the most commonly employed effective photocatalyst for a wide range of organic chemical degradation.In recent years, ZnO is another important semiconductor investigated.In some cases, ZnO, has been more effective than TiO

Materials and Method
All used chemicals in this work were employed without further purification.Nigrosin dye is illustrated in (Figure 1).The photocatalytic decolorization by using ZnO experiments were done by employing home made photoreactor that consists of 250 Watt high pressure mercury lamp at light intensity I o equal to 1.47 × 10 −7 ensien s −1 that calculated by chemical actinometer (ferrioxalate actinometric) [11], magnetic stirrer, wooden box that used to prevent the escape of harmful radiation [12], fan, Pyrex glass beaker and Teflon bar.

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25 ppm of Nigrosin dye was mixed with 300 mg of ZnO to generate a suspension solution by employing a magnetic stirrer.The mixing process was continued without irradiation in dark reaction for 30 min, and then the mixture was activated via the light irradiation in photocatalytic process.About 3 mL of suspention solution was collected at 5 min as a sequence time by using a plastic test tube.The withdrawn suspention was centrifuged at 4000 rpm for 10 minutes and filtered.The centrifuged process was repeated to ensure the completed of removing the catalyst before found the residual concentration of dye .To find the residual concentration of Nigrosin dye was measured using spectrophotometry at 570 nm.
The rate constant for this reaction was determined by depending upon the Langmuir-Hinshelwood (L-H) model that modified to investigate the order of the studied photoreaction, from the following equations [13] [14] [15]: where: C o is an initial concentration of Nigrosin dye in (dark reaction) at time of irradiation = 0, C t is a concentration of the same dye at time t of irradiation.
Equation ( 2) was applied, at assumption the initial concentration of dye is low, hence, the rate of photo reaction follows pseudo first-order kinetics [14].

Effect of pH
The initial pH is regarded as a vital parameter to study the photoreaction for decolorization any dye from suspension solution of photocatalyst.The effect of pH from 4 to 10 on the photocatalytic decolorization of Nigrosin dye are appeared in (Figure 2(a) and Figure 2(b)) and Figure 3.
The results demonstrated that the best initial pH for decolorization of Nigrosin dye is 8.177.This value is near from the zero point charge of ZnO that equal to 9 [12] [17].This effect depended upon the characteristics of studied dye, the surface charge of catalyst and generation of hydroxyl radicals via photocatalysis process [18] [19].In acid medium, the surface of photocatalyst is positive chargly and caused photocorrosion via self oxidation, therebye the efficiency of decolorization depresses.Moreover, In basic medium, the surface of photocatalyst is negative charge, that will lead to dissolution of the photocatalyst according to the following Equations ( 4)-( 7) [19] [20].
( ) Zn O acidic pH 2 ( ) or ZnO 2 H Zn H O acidic pH ( ) or ZnO H O 2 OH Zn OH basic pH

Effect of Temperature
The effect of temperature on photodecolorization of Nigresone dye from sus-M.T. Jaafar pension solution of ZnO was estimated in the range (283.15 -303.15)K.This effect plays an important role to determine the apparent activation energy (E a ) that used Arrhenius equation (Equation ( 8)), and some thermodynamics parameters such as (ΔH # , ΔS # and ΔG # ) that employed Eyring-Polanyi equation (Equation ( 9)) and Gibbs equation (Equation ( 10)).These parameters were calculated by the following Equations [21] [22] [23] [24].ln ln Whereas: k app is apparent rate constant, E a is apparent activation energy, A is a frequency constant, R is gas constant and T is temperature of photoreaction.
Whereas: k B is a Boltzmann's constant, h is a Plank's constant, R is a gas constant and T is the temperature of reaction.
From (Figure 4(a) and Figure 4(b)), it was observed the decolorization of the studied dye declines with increasing temperature that due to the exothermic nature in reaction (ΔH # ).This result is in agreement with information that reported in references [21] [25].On basis on calculated data from Figure 4(a) and Figure 4(b), the values of activation energy and the essential thermodynamics parameters that are listed in Table 1.
The negative value of ΔG # for this photoreaction indicates the reaction spontaneous in nature.The negative value of ΔS # proved the depress randomness.The moderate value of activation energy refer to the rate for decolorization of this dye is low and reach to final at 25 min.In case of used ZnO alone as photocatalyst, The E% for decolorization of above-mentioned dye is equal to 64.9122 at 30˚C (Lab temperature) and 15 min.The hydroxyl radical acts as a power for starting the photoreaction with presence of photocatalyst.This progress of photoreaction was monitored by the following equations [26]

Effect of Addition Oxidant Reagents
In this work, the process for addition of Fe(II) in concentration 1 × 10 −4 M to the dye solution with presence ZnO has a negative effect.So, E% of this reaction declines to be 43.750.That belongs on the reacted of Fe 2+ with Perhydroxyl radical, according to the following equation [28] [29].HO Fe HO Fe HO Fe O Fe H From the other hand, the used of fenton's reaction in the conditions of the

Proposed Mechanism
The suggested mechanism for decolorization of Nigreson in presence ZnO under UV-A light was summarized in (Scheme 1).

Conclusions
The essential conclusions for this work were proven the following results: 1) The photoreaction of decolorization of Nigresoin dye in suspension solution of ZnO obeys the pseudo first order kinetics.
2) The Rate of photocatalytic decolorization of the above dye is followed the 3) The decolorization reaction is fast, exothermic and spontaneously at initial pH 8.177 of dye solution.
4) At 25 min and 288.15 K, the efficiency (E%) of removal Nigrosin dye in presence of ZnO was reached to maximum value and to be 99.014.

Figure 2 .
Figure 2. Effect of initial pH on the apparent rate constant of Nigrosin dye decolourization, dye concentration 25 ppm with ZnO dosage 300 mg/100mL, at initial pH range (4.113 -10.000),Temp.288.15K and I o of UV-A is 1.47 × 10 −7 Ens s −1 ).(a) ln(C o /C t ) vs time and (b) k app vs initial pH of solution.

Figure 3
Figure 3 was proved, at initial pH equal to 8.170, the maximum value of the efficiency (E%) of removal Nigrosin dye in presence of ZnO is reached to 99.014 at 25 min and 288.15 K.

Figure 5
Figure 5 displays the effect of addition of varies types of oxidant reagent such as H 2 O 2 and Fe(II) on the decolorization of Nigrosein dye in suspension solutuion of ZnO.
next sequences: Rate of decolorization in presence ZnO alone > Rate of decolorization in presence ZnO with H 2 O 2 > Rate of decolorization in presence ZnO with Fe(II) > Rate of decolorization in presence ZnO with H 2 O 2 and Fe(II).

Table 1 .
The activation kinetic and thermodynamic parameters that calculated for photodecolorisation of Nigresine dye with suspension solution of ZnO.
[27].M. T. Jaafar Journal of Geoscience and Environment ProtectionWhen addition 1% of H 2 O 2 to suspension solution of dye and ZnO, that depress the E% to 58.969, that attributable to the high concentration of H 2 O 2 that acts as scavenger for •OH radical to form Perhydroxyl radical